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Who’s watching Newsnight? Who knows…
Ask any journalist why you should listen to them and, eventually, most of them would say the same thing… We are in touch with what our readers / viewers / listeners want to hear. Some may say they even represent their audience. And this is a fundamental part of how the media works. Journalists, producers […]
Degrees give no guarantees of success in the media
August 26, 2011
Over at the Independent, Rizwan Syed criticises Jan Murray’s development of an Apprenticeship for journalists. I praised Jan for this move, part of what I believe is a vital shift toward creating more routes to enter media professions. I did respond on the Independent, but my comments seem to have disappeared. So, I’ll re-post my […]
Sexy A-Levels are not the worst media crime today
August 18, 2011
With phone hacking and riots, this has hardly been a normal ‘silly season’ for the media. But, like Christmas ‘last day rush’ and Bank Holiday ‘getaway travel chaos’ stories, A-Level results can be relied on to fill plenty of media airtime and column inches. In all this coverage, a recurring media crime is to use […]
The Apprentice revolution is coming, but slowly
August 16, 2011
Guardian journalist Jan Murray‘s announcement that she is taking on an Apprentice is another sign that the attitude toward vocational qualifications is changing. Degrees churn out indebted graduates who, in the PR industry as in journalism, spend the immediate aftermath of their degree on post-graduate qualifications or as juniors learning their trade. Indeed, those graduates […]
What makes sports ‘news’?
July 24, 2011
Sport is an important part of British life. The economic impact of football alone is massive with the world’s richest club worth £1.16bn, to a non league club still turning over £200,000 a year. And that’s not to mention the revenue generated by businesses as a direct result of sports events being staged. Yet despite […]
More from The Rooftop – news worth shouting about
- Public nominees for charity film of the year announced 16/01/2019
- Charity launches healthy heart drive 15/01/2019
- Blue Monday set for positive makeover 14/01/2019
- Affordable counselling in Cambridge 11/01/2019
- EU grant for child protection online amid fears for future funding 10/01/2019
- Opening up the stage, screen and airwaves 09/01/2019
- Public shows solidarity with hunger crime victims 08/01/2019
- Snow shoes help inner city kids take giant steps 07/01/2019
- Alcolocks could save lives in UK 04/01/2019
- Hydrogen homes can power the economy 03/01/2019
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