I don’t know if it owed to happenstance or deliberate scheduling by our crafty tutors, but last week, Cardiff JOMEC saw two guest-lecturers who were poles apart.
First was web-wizard, pioneer of the new cyber-journo age, and Web Development Editor, Joanna Geary.
Joanna’s lecture was unique because her relatively recent rise to success felt like more of [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Journalism debate’
November 26, 2009
Gearing up for a Reiss in social media
November 26, 2009
Let’s not outgrow those size 10’s just yet…
With the weekly flow of top-notch industry leaders power-pointing their hearts out for us, the Cardiff School of Journalism, it’s easy to get complacent.
Although asking a room full of budding hacks not to be too critical is a bit like asking Martin Johnson’s ears not to be too big, I think we have been spoiled [...]
November 11, 2009
Must the (slide) show go on? Really?
AGE has recently overtaken all other discontents and become the main shaper of my acerbically-bitter and sarcastic self. Believe me, the competition is strong.
OK, this appraisal is a little heafty; entering my mid-twenties isn’t as bad as some would make out. However, as one gets older, one can’t help looking around to see where the [...]
October 29, 2009
The lady may not be for turning, but this lad is
It’s 1980. Britain is the nation-state equivalent of a fetid sack of feces. Margaret Thatcher is under immense pressure — not least from those inside her own government; two-million are unemployed as a result of her harsh economic policies.
Oblivious to the imminent massacre of Argentinean teenagers that was to be the Falklands War, and the [...]
October 27, 2009
The twit has hit the fan
I think God — or Allah/Buddah/Wodan/etc depending on your brand of delusion — needs to come up with an animal more stubborn than a mule; if only so we can coin a new proverb for people far more stubborn than it.
Of course the ‘people’ of which I speak are a church of one: me. I [...]
October 16, 2009
It’s journalism, Jim, but not as we know it
This week, I (along with everyone else studying postgraduate journalism at Cardiff University) was presented with an interesting microcosm of perhaps the most pertinent debate in the media right now — the relationship between online and print.
Now as far as shifts in relationships go, the one occurring in this media-dichotomy makes Oedipus’ affiliation with his [...]
