Web journalism MAs graduate!...

A huge well done to the journalism postgraduates at the University of Sheffield who graduated last week. I helped teach the web journalism students – a fantastic bunch who produced some brilliant websites for their dissertations. Find out more about journalism at the University of Sheffield. Good luck class of 2012! Iulia on graduation...

Literary journalism: The not-so-bad repo...

This is a guest post from my current work experience placement Georgina Stokes. Georgina is studying media and communications at Nottingham Trent University and has a great style of writing. You can follow Georgina on Twitter too. Literary journalism: The not-so-bad reporting style? Georgina Stokes While studying journalism in Canada last year, I was taught to report news in an almost bullet point fashion, with one sentence per paragraph and minimalist details. Sure, description was encouraged, but only enough to paint a general picture within the audiences’ minds....

The importance of responsible juxtaposit...

I want you to look at this screenshot as you would normally look at a webpage and tell me what you look at first: Screen shot of Sky News story on 10 March 2010 Do you, as I did, look at the image first then let your eye travel up to the headline? How many people don’t look at the headline? You could easily think this chap is Jon Venables – when the entire point of the article is to say he isn’t. Words are important but visually they’re not as strong as a photo or image on the page. It’s an obvious choice to put these two photos together but...