Freelance Unbound
Blog URL http://freelanceunbound.wordpress.com
Located Farnham, Surrey United Kingdom
Tags journalism, education, animation
One freelance journalist's journey to make sense of his industry - from the death of print to the rise of Facebook - and discover whether you can actually teach undergraduate journalism students to spell properly...
Latest Blog Posts
- Surfing or diving? Google and the “deep web” on Nov 26, 2009 in Journalism freedom investigative journalism
Here’s an interesting piece from the Guardian about the deep web – the more than 99% (it claims) of the world wide web that is invisible to everyday search via, say, Google. Also interesting is the paper’s editorial stance on this. Acco...
- Google Sidewiki – an experiment on Nov 24, 2009 in Journalism Google reputation social media
Anyone using the very much under-the-radar Sidewiki toolbar gizmo from Google to add browser-located comments to web sites will now be able to see an entry for Freelance Unbound on the left of the screen next to the home page. I’ve only just co...
- Journalism students: how to top the Google rankings with 20 minutes’ work on Nov 23, 2009 in Journalism Karl Schneider university
How do you get your student news story at the top of the Google rankings? And without really breaking a sweat? Basically: write it. Last week’s talk by Karl Schneider of Reed to journalism students at UCA Farnham sparked some interest on the we...
- Online journalism in a nutshell… on Nov 22, 2009 in Journalism comics humour
It’s not the whole truth, honestly…...
- Building trust online: transparency and process journalism on Nov 20, 2009 in Journalism accuracy ethics Karl Schneider university
Last in this series of videos and write-ups of Reed Business Information editorial development director Karl Schneider’s talk to journalism students at UCA Farnham. The discussion comes as a result of a typically trenchant question from pugnacious...
- How the social web has changed the journalist’s working day on Nov 19, 2009 in Journalism Karl Schneider Twitter university
How does a cutting edge, web-aware journalist’s average working day compare to how it was five years ago? More from Reed Business Information editorial development director Karl Schneider’s talk to journalism students at UCA Farnham. Then R...
- Reed’s Karl Schneider: “10 more years for print” on Nov 18, 2009 in Journalism
As promised yesterday, more from Karl Schneider’s talk to UCA journalism students. We’re moving into multimedia territory now – with a handy summary underneath the video in case you actually prefer, you know, reading. Karl Schneider – ed...
