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NYT's Stephen Farrell goes over his equipment used in his coverage of Egyptian protests. Note the highlighting of the principle "it's not the gear that produces journalism" and that he uses the same Edirol as our course does.

His own article and explanation of what it means to do work in a hostile place and what not to bring with, can be found here:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/what-not-to-bring-to-tahrir-squ...

 http://www.kent.ac.uk/student/news/campus.html?id=snow-update.txt

Campus currently closed?

Gizmodo has gotten their hands on a new, unreleased iPhone 4GS 

"The future is online," he said.

Before we all get warm and fuzzly inside: a notable trend is still, that 'western' papers are slowly decreasing (but not as much as expected) in volumes (and especially in advertising), but the overall is overturned by monumental increases in Asian, African and Latin American papers.

Altogether, a 1,3% increase worldwide.

Yahoo (cough) reports

"Nothing But The Truth" (American title, also the reason for every word with a capital first letter!) is a story about a woman, journalism, principles, government, the First Amendment Rights (again, US) and how sometimes the fascination we have with journalism is maybe a tad bit too well done.

In the last four days, in Afganistan and Pakistan, there have been roughly 152 deaths. That is 38 people a day. 38 people a day, have their families left all alone; have their heads blown off; have their organs destroyed by 'dum-dum' AK bullets; have their dreams destroyed. 

8 in Afganistan on 30th of March, 24 militants in NW Pakistan on 28th of March, atleast 50 (possibly 70) in a mosque attack in Pakistan, at least 10 in a Pakistani restaurant; and finally, possibly 40 future policemen, eradicated, in Pakistan.

Recently, when working weird hours and drinking unconsumable amounts of coffee (for a normal person) for the politics essay - How far have the constitutional reforms introduced since 1997 strengthened or weakened the democracy in Britain? - I came across a small paragraph, which was meant to spark (youth) interest in general politics. It was meant as a foundational piece.

Snowpocalypse, Kent University and the campus.

Click on an image to start the slideshow.

A quick list of the 5 reasons, why a journalism student would want to write for a student newspaper.

Maybe this last thing, will push some of you to join up. 

Five reasons why you should write for your student newspaper.

UMSA has asked for the recreation of the school newspaper (formerly known as PULP - this name is not required).

At this current stage, there is an active search for nearly anyone willing to write or do any other work for it. This includes areas like: