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Emerging bloggers

First-year students at La Trobe University have started blogging en masse. Here’s where they’re up to.

Nicholas Jones – working journalist profile

In our latest Working Journalist profile, Jack Vear speaks to Nicholas Jones of Tone Deaf about the success of the publication and his concerns about the future of the Australian music industry.

Welcome to the blogosphere

A big welcome to the 200 new bloggers who have set up sites in the last week as part of a first-year journalism assignment at La Trobe University. And check out the every-growing #TEJ2013 blog roll.

When not to report

As the global press holds off on reporting the name of an Australian ‘star’ arrested by Scotland Yard detectives last week, Harvey Biggs explores the media’s role in informing the public sphere.

Introducing our new best practices blog

Three years after upstart was launched the site has spawned its first offspring. In keeping with our mission to be a resource for emerging journalists, we’ve launched a new blog dedicated to exploring emerging best practices in digital journalism.

Alan Attwood: Working journalist profile

As current editor of The Big Issue and former foreign correspondent for The Age, Alan Attwood has had a varied career. Suzannah Marshall Macbeth talks to him about the street magazine and about not specialising as a writer.

Class of 2011 – where are you now?

Just finished your journalism degree and scored your first media gig? Then here at upstart we want to know all about it, as we track the fate of the class of 2011.

100 articles – ‘Against Reviews’

What’s wrong with reviews? Quite a lot, according to Elizabeth Gumport, who outlines here own critique of them in this piece that’s been selected by Alexandra Duguid to join our list of the ‘100 articles’ every journalist should read about journalism.

100 articles – ‘To our readers: Jul. 4 1994’

This defensive apology by TIME magazine for its infamous O. J Simpson cover shot gets a guernsey in our ‘100 articles’ list not because it’s great journalism. Instead it should be read as a cautionary tale about what happens when the media crosses the ethical line, says Liana Neri.