Tweeting with the Enemy \u2013 John Price, Neil Farrington and Lee Hall<\/a><\/strong>
\nWith more than 200m users worldwide, Twitter is becoming an increasingly significant tool for journalists and their audiences.\u00a0 Yet, to date, there has been relatively little academic study of its impacts on the journalism profession.\u00a0 This article provides one of the first attempts to investigate how Twitter is influencing journalism, focusing on the specialist area of sports reporting.\u00a0 Through interviews with members of a press pack, the article explores how Twitter is perceived by sports journalists, how it is affecting their professional relationships, and how it is being employed in everyday working practices. Findings suggest the new technology is creating some problems and divisions among journalists, due partly to a lack of clear guidelines and best practice.\u00a0 While Twitter undoubtedly offers new journalistic opportunities in terms of sourcing, publishing and accessing audiences, it poses a number of potential problems including workload, loss of exclusive source access and content, and abuse from readers.\u00a0 As a result, training in the use of Twitter should form an essential part of any sports journalism course if future reporters are to get the best out of this social media. The article concludes by identifying the key areas which should be covered by such training.<\/p>\nNewspapers on the naughty step –\u00a0\u00a0 Chris Frost<\/strong>
\nBritish newspapers are facing their worst ever ethical crisis with allegations of phone-hacking and other unethical practices including data-hacking, harassment and intimidation. The industry\u2019s regulator, the Press Complaints Commission, has announced it is to wind down and is transferring its asset and staff to a new authority ending its 21 year history as the newspaper regulator. Sections of the industry are fighting to ensure that any future body continues the pattern of self-regulation by portraying the News of the World<\/em> as a rogue newspaper operating outside the standard practices of the industry. This paper seeks to discover if self-regulation as carried out by the PCC showed any signs of limiting press excesses and whether the News of the World<\/em> really stood outside the industry norms by examining PCC complaints data and data from the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office concerning computer hacking.<\/p>\nHyper local learning – David Baine<\/strong>
\nThis paper reviews, as a case study in enhancing teaching and learning on journalism programmes, the development of a \u2018hyper-local\u2019 news website set up in an English city by a freelance journalist on which students volunteer as reporters and editors. The review finds that the news site met initial expectations in providing a supportive space to develop students\u2019 skills and knowledge, but that it later developed in unexpected trajectories. The project became a space for innovation and experimentation in journalism practice and the paper concludes that such a venture can sustain professional values, knowledge, skills and practices; encourage innovation and enhance journalism students\u2019 employability. There was evidence that the project contributed to community sustainability and helped to resolve dilemmas which arise when journalism students undertake unpaid placements to gain work experience in media organisations which might be making editorial staff redundant.<\/p>\nDeer departed – Alec Charles<\/strong>
\nThis paper explores the socio-political symbolism which underpinned the UK\u2019s mainstream national press coverage of the death of a red deer stag known as the Exmoor Emperor during the autumn of 2010. It employs both qualitative and quantitative methods of content analysis, and draws upon interviews with journalists and public figures involved in the telling of this story in order to suggest reasons behind the significant public and media interest in a narrative which had no ostensible material impact upon a general readership. In doing so, it proposes that journalists, journalism students and journalism educators might significantly benefit from viewing the meaning of apparently trivial news stories through the frames of broader contexts and subtexts, and that such an approach might prove more enduringly useful than a pedagogical focus upon more ephemeral technicalities.<\/p>\nTwitter \u2013 what is it good for? \u2013 Steve Harrison<\/strong>
\nThe issue of student engagement is one of the most crucial in HE, as it is intimately linked to both retention and learning. Previous studies have underlined the value of community in fostering engagement. This project draws on the concept of \u201cambient awareness\u201d (exemplified here by the Twitter service) to argue that such social networks engender \u201cambient communities\u201d and hence can perform similar functions to a traditional community in relation to engagement. Finally a pilot study among second year journalism students uses Twitter to explore the practical implications of this approach.<\/p>\nGlobal citizens \u2013 Roman Gerodimos<\/strong>
\nThis article argues that journalism education is uniquely positioned to advance global awareness, and makes the case for a curriculum that places greater emphasis on global current affairs. A robust understanding of global issues, and of the challenges facing global reportage, is a vital part of media literacy and can help journalism students fulfil their dual role as global citizens and mediators.<\/p>\nComment and criticism<\/h3>\n
Confessions of a Hacademic – Tony Harcup
\nNewsreaders as eye candy – Claire Wolfe and Barbara Mitra
\nMission aborted: PBS in Wales – James Stewart
\nAll Journalism is not the same \u2013 Tor Clark<\/p>\n
Review section<\/h3>\n
Reviews edited by Tor Clarke<\/p>\n
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