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.
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.
Are you a final-year journalism student in 2010? If so, you can join the journalists’ union for free while completing your degree.
Not only did he survive an encounter with lions and tigers – Tom Maclean also learnt how to shoot TV news stories and even met the German Chancellor while completing his degree as at the Missouri School of Journalism as a La Trobe exchange student.
La Trobe University’s Matthew Smith interviews upstart co-founder Lawrie Zion about the changing face of journalism education.
What’s the relationship between ethics and quality journalism? Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) spokesman Mike Dobbie talks with Glen Clancy about the importance of ethics in today’s fast-evolving media industry, and his experiences in training journalists in Afghanistan.
If you believe the reports, the media business is in crisis. Then why are enrollments in journalism courses going up? Christopher Scanlon investigates.
On Wednesday 14th October, Lawrie Zion co-hosted the Conversation Hour with Jon Faine on 774 ABC Melbourne. Their guests included Don Watson, whose latest book is called ‘Bendable Learnings, The Wisdom of Modern Management’. They also discussed journalism education and upstart.
You may not find your dream job in journalism straight away, but there’s a lot of other opportunities out there, as 2007 Bachelor of Journalism graduate Luke Fenney has discovered.
Want a box seat to watch the revolution in journalism unravel? Lawrie Zion’s been trawling through the media maelstrom and has come up with ten sites to follow if you want to get a handle on what’s going on and where it might be leading. If you want to add to this list, send in your submissions too.
Friday 17 July 2009 — upstart editor-in-chief Lawrie Zion speaks with Barbie Zelizer, Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, about journalism and the academy.
According to Barbie Zelizer, ‘Journalists say journalism scholars and educators have no business airing their dirty laundry, journalism scholars say journalists and journalism educators are not theoretical enough, journalism educators say journalists have their heads in the sand and journalism scholars have their heads in the clouds.’ In this research seminar, Lawrie Zion takes a closer look.
