La Trobe Journalism graduates from 2007, Lauren Hilbert and Matt Cram, are returning on Monday to talk to La Trobe’s final year students.
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.
upstart’s editor-in-chief Lawrie Zion will be delivering a paper at La Trobe University on Thursday about his new project.
La Trobe Journalism graduates from 2007, Lauren Hilbert and Matt Cram, are returning on Monday to talk to La Trobe’s final year students.
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.
upstart’s editor-in-chief Lawrie Zion will be delivering a paper at La Trobe University on Thursday about his new project.
First-year students at La Trobe University have started blogging en masse. Here’s where they’re up to.
La Trobe Journalism graduates from 2007, Lauren Hilbert and Matt Cram, are returning on Monday to talk to La Trobe’s final year students.
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.
upstart’s editor-in-chief Lawrie Zion will be delivering a paper at La Trobe University on Thursday about his new project.
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.
The 100th article for upstart by final-year journalism student Ben Waterworth also happens to be one of the ‘100 articles’ every journalist should read about journalism, says his lecturer Lawrie Zion.
There aren’t many people who can claim to have energised contemporary debates about journalism as much as New York University’s Jay Rosen. So if you’re not already reading his blog PressThink, read on, says Lawrie Zion.
La Trobe University welcomes its first sport journalism students this week. But what exactly makes a good sport journalist? Matt Smith talking about this and more with degree coodinator David Lowden.
Struggling to keep up with the news? Christopher Scanlon shows how you can create your own source of online news using Good Noows.
This week’s Sited selection is Reportr.net – a ‘live notebook’ by journalism educator and former BBC journalist Alfred Hermida, that chronicles media and journalism trends. Lawrie Zion profiles the site.
This week Lawrie Zion launches a new column called ‘Sited’ that suggests places on the web that anyone with an interest in journalism should follow. To kick it off, he profiles CJR.org – a web spinoff of the 50 year-old magazine, Columbia Journalism Review.
La Trobe student Matthew Dixon reports from the (geographic) middle of America about his experience as an exchange student at the world’s oldest journalism school.
Do universities offer a safe harbour for investigative journalism within the current storm buffeting the news industries? In this piece, Madeleine Barwick talks to Professor Wendy Bacon from UTS.
Charles Sturt University is offering scholarships in memory of the Peter Andren, a long serving rural television reporter turned politician.
A report about the news consumption habits of Australian journalism students raises some disturbing questions about the viability of commercial media, says Jarrod Strauch, who has nominated the story as one of the ‘100 articles’ that every journalist should read about journalism.
Interested in journalism and sport and thinking about what to study next year? You might want to consider La Trobe’s new three-year Sport Journalism degree which will enrol its first batch of students for the start of the 2011 academic year.
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.
