I am currently reading Nick Davies’ ‘Flat Earth News’ and I am only a chapter and a half in and I am already more depressed about the prospects of a career in Journalism that I have been for a long time. I had not realised the decline in proper fact-checked journalism was so widespread and [...]
Having spent the day at Jeecamp, I wanted to share a few of my thoughts on the day. This year the (semi) Unconference feels like it has focused more on the business / innovation side of journalism than ever before. It was a very different experience to the unconference of a year ago, however I do not think the more formal nature of the event is entirely to blame. When attending last year I had been elected as Redbrick editor only days before and as such I had a platform with which I could experiment. This time around I have nowhere to try-out the ideas and possibilities that have come out of the discussions I had on Friday