Blog posts by year and monthDecember 2013
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Long-form picks of 2013: Eating mice and stripping for Lindsay Lohan
Here is a personal selection of a few long-form articles I have happened across this year. They generally have more than 140 characters; actually, usually tens of thousands. Be warned.
Data journalism: What’s new, what’s not, and work in progress
There is no shortage of books on data journalism. Into the mix comes a new one edited by John Mair and Richard Lance Keeble called Data Journalism: Mapping the Future, which comes out in January.
College of Journalism announces winner of second Student Innovation Award
This year the judges singled out Crossing the Bridge, an ambitious multimedia project documenting ethnic tensions in Kosovo, by Bournemouth University MA student Joshua Longmore.
UGC: Source, check and stay on top of technology
This has been another busy year in terms of stories driven by user-generated content (UGC): Egypt, the St Jude storm in the UK, Syria, the Russian meteor, Typhoon Haiyan, and most recently the death of Nelson Mandela.
Mental health stories - a difficult sell?
I do not know whether I was simply unlucky in my long search for people prepared to broadcast this story about postpartum psychosis, or whether there is a wider reluctance to commit to stories about mental health.
College of Journalism’s Student Innovation Award down to the final four
An exploration of drone journalism, a powerful documentary about ethnic tensions in Kosovo, a multimedia history of nuclear power, and an interactive piece of election coverage, are shortlisted for our second Student Innovation Award.
CIA does journalists’ research for them
This is an eclectic online resource which provides basic intelligence support to the US government (and the rest of us).
Russian media just gets more bizarre - and occasionally uplifting
Watching the Russian media has always had its fair share of disturbing moments, but recently it has been like peering into a twilight zone of surreal paranoia.
The future of local TV - another way forward?
You have a local media industry in need of content and a raft of journalism students in need of experience. It struck me that combining the two would create an elegant solution.
BBC News style on grammar and spelling is not Strictly to everyone’s taste
We’re not saying the BBC is infallibly correct and the audience wrong - just that we have made certain choices and are happy to explain them.
