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...

Personal feelings vs professionalism...

I do some teaching at Sheffield University’s Journalism Department – currently to the Web MA students. I talk to them about the importance of the headline, about how to grab users in the first three words and give a few examples of getting it wrong – and right – from my own career. Last week I was a bit baffled by one student. I’d asked them to practice different writing styles – sport, news and entertainment. I had prepared three stories for them to re-write. This student was finding the entertainment story particularly hard going. It...