In Western traditions of news gathering, journalists are seen as being objective and impartial. Often they are complimented for doing investigative work or castigated for not challenging politicians enough. Ultimately, what comes across is that media consumers have some idea of what they think journalism is. When blogging platforms became easy to use and news …
Author Archives: Joanna
Harassment of the mayor’s office
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Becoming a journalist
In today’s thoughts, I’m looking at how we learn to frame stories and examine how this helps you provide authority in journalism. There’s a scene in Frasier where Roz has just announced she’s pregnant and pretends to Bulldog that it’s his baby. She paints a scene that leaves him terrified and quaking. She then adds …
Authority in journalism
Planning an article submission If I’m going to get a PhD by publication then I need to submit some articles. My first thought for this thesis, was to start with the authority a citizen journalist needs to (overcome) when starting out. As advised in the book ‘How to get your thesis by publication’, you need …
In the Guardian, the clean air zone
In an audience with the mayor (July 2019), cllr Paula O’Rourke brought up some research she had read about in the Guardian to do with polluting cars. She said it was more robust than other analysis because it used MOT data (administrative data is a wonderful resource) and so could track which cars were the …
The solid steel ceiling of failure
Failure is my favourite word. Fail at 10 things a day and see how quickly failure loses its impact on you. I’ve been inspired this evening and made to realise just how unbreakable that ceiling can be for citizen journalists or any media that doesn’t have millionaire backing. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try …
Further sources — rounding up
Social media has been in the news recently because the current president of the United States, Donald Trump, was blocked from a succession of them. One side of the argument says that censoring hate speech and speech that incites violence is an important element of freedom of expression (true) and the other suggests that when …
How to do a case study
I have been trying to think how to present a story on the Impact Social reporting. There is so much information and all of it seems to need fact checking. The public are already paying £3000 a month for this information that seems wildly (or at times subtly) inaccurate. A table format would seem the …
Local/national responsibilities
The biggest news in the world right now, locally and nationally, is Covid and associated restrictions. It’s also a useful way to see about the limited powers local governments actually have. And the newsworthiness of it. And how news resources affect news agendas. Yesterday, for example, was a big day for school announcements. We were …
Post-holiday catch up
I have found myself on a bit of a holiday break but am now back to my routine. I kept collecting bits of information and found new sources. One very useful source was a blog on how to study and write as a researcher — tips etc. I found the details of what is needed …
Selfie PhD 