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The media is undergoing a revolution in which people will no longer look to newspapers for news, according to Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow.

Delivering the third Bob Friend Memorial Lecture at the University of Kent on Friday night, Snow said events in the Middle East demonstrate the benefits of social media websites but also that newspapers are becoming dated very quickly. Leaders in Tunisia and Egypt have been forced from power after mass protests driven by services like Twitter and Facebook.

Snow said: "I don't think people will look to newspapers for news. I don't think people are patient enough to read news in that way."

Before his lecture, titled ‘From film to Twitter – the media revolution: is the golden age of journalism come or gone?’, Snow presented this year’s winner of the Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship, Tania Steere, with her award.

The Centre for Journalism Newswire is now live. The project is being undertaken as part of the Centre's Online news day for third-year undergraduates.

 The conference for the newsday tomorrow will be at 8am in the big newsroom please come with plenty of ideas. The paper is an evening paper for Friday. It will be the Optimus Times again.

Alan and Kelsey as non-assessed reporters will be working together to do the leader and opinion/editorial pages and Becci will be in charge of the production and putting copy on the pages. Nick will help with picture bylines so please email him a photo you would like to appear in the paper.

Nick started a Twitter account for the CfJ a while ago, so I started the design for it. However, I've never made a layout in my life and I'm lacking inspiration.

I just spent the last 10 minutes creating this. It's unfinished and incredibly flawed as I've lost all interest in it for tonight, but I just wanted to gauge everyone's opinions. Scrap it or keep it and improve it? Someone else can feel free to make one, or pitch me your ideas and I'll see what I can do. 

As we keep on hearing from various guest speakers that come to the Centre for Journalism mobile phones have a future in the news industry.

Well here’s one of the latest sites to use mobile phone technology for breaking news... It’s called Audioboo and it has been called the Twitter for people who want their voices heard. 

Now I don't mean to go all sentimental and soppy on you lot, but I've been thinking...

Tormented to the brink of sobriety by the atmosphere of gloom and redundancy pervading our beloved news industry, my friends at the Independent asked me to justify creating a degree in journalism. "How can you subject those brilliant, delightful, inspiring young people to academic rigour, editorial conferences and shorthand when job prospects look less healthy than the Zimbabwe Dollar?" they asked.

A statue of Rebecca Hughes was built in the Centre for Journalism newsroom earlier today after it was revealed that Hughes successfully managed to “pout”.

This site was created using Drupal by Ian Reeves as a live publishing environment for the students and staff of the Centre for Journalism, one of the University of Kent's newest departments.

Its first cohort of graduates completed their degrees in June 2011 and its teaching staff include Prof. Tim Luckhurst, Ian Reeves, Sarah Lonsdale, Richard Pendry and Dr Suzanne Franks.