Upstart is one year-old this Saturday. Co-founders Lawrie Zion and Chris Scanlon look back on the first twelve months of an experiment that’s resulted in dozens of students and journalists publishing more than 500 items on the site.

When he founded the world’s first journalism school in 1908, Walter Williams had a few things to say about his mission. Sarah Green has selected this creed for inclusion in our list of ’100 articles’ every 21st century jouralist should read about journalism.

Being a journalist is part of a blended career brew for Alex Wake, who has worked as everything from a country newspaper reporter to a ministerial press secretary. She is currently lecturing in journalism at RMIT while completing her PhD. James Briggs spoke to her for our Working Journalist project.

After stints in two regional newspapers, Kimberley Nichols decided that daily journalism wasn’t for her. But the skills she learned have turned out to be useful in her current role in beyondblue, as she explains to Sarah Green in this Working Journalist profile.

Sri Lankan television journalist and producer Amal Alvis is the first person to be profiled this year as part of our Working Journalist project. Shashini Gamage caught up with him in Melbourne.

For those students who missed out on the event last week, Sharon Green reports on the key discussions from the MediaPass Student Industry Day in Melbourne.

Has science journalism become an endangered media species? As part of our Has science journalism become an endangered media species? As part of our ’100 articles every journalist should read about journalism’ project, Maike Winters selects a recent editorial on this very theme in Nature magazine.

Our sport journalism symposium was held on Thursday 8 April. More soon on upstart about the day.

The history of upstart, all eight months of it, has been the subject of an article by Lawrie Zion that was published this week in an a newsletter run by the US-based Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Journalists should report what’s going on, not try to change the world. That’s the view of veteran Radio Australia journalist Bruce Hill, who spoke to Isabel Robinson for our Working Journalist project about his career that’s taken him all over the Pacific.