reading

Our ears and our eyes: Journalists in Iraq, by Jerry Palmer and Victoria Fontan. Journalism, 2007 8 : 5. 

A story to die for, by Rhidian Bridge. British Journalism Review, 2004. 15:35

Fixers, inc, by Jessica Wanke. American Journalism Review. February/March 2009 issue.

Behind the news: the fixer, by Shahan Mufti. Columbia Journalism Review, 1 September 2010. 

The story of a fixer, Editorial in The Nation. 17/24 August 2009.

Please read and photocopy before class next Monday:

Please read the following items, print out and bring to class on 18 November:

http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100843

Please read Vaughan Smith's chapter on current embedding practices from Afghanistan: war and the media. Deadlines and Frontlines and bring the book or a photocopy of this chapter to class. 

Tim will be putting embedding in a historical context in this class.  

Please come to class on 18 October having read the chapter entitled, Prisoners of News Values, page 190-205 in Reporting War: journalism in wartime by Stuart Allan and Barbie Zelizer. Available in the library.

Also, three chapters from the Max Hastings book, Going to the Wars, firstly the one on reporting the Falklands, which you will find in the chapter entitled Voyage to the South Atlantic. And from the same book, please read the chapters Yom Kippur and Israel's victory.

...to all the superb candidates who have today won places on the Kent BA in Journalism and the News Industry. In an intensely competitive year every one of you has performed exceptionally well to get in. Our new freshers are a very cosmopolitan bunch. You come from every corner of the UK and the English-speaking world. Everyone in the Centre for Journalism looks forward to seeing you in September. Until then we hope you will enjoy celebrating your achievement. If you have any questions we have not already answered about the course, the National Council for the Training of Journalists, preparatory reading, listening and watching (e.g. which newspapers to read, radio news to listen to, TV to watch and news websites to browse),  please don't hesitate to contact us at journalism@kent.ac.uk. Our Facebook site is a good place to introduce yourself to your fellow freshers and to meet second and third year students and our new MA students. The link is on the toolbar.  

After my  comments about the importance of reading widely (and Allan Little's impassioned guidance on the same theme), Alan McGuinness asked me to recommend my favourite novels about journalists and journalism. You know about Scoop by Evelyn Waugh.  I also recommend Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn, The Quiet American by Graham Greene and Yellow Dog by Martin Amis. Of course, journalists should not restrict themselves to fiction about journalists.

Extra copies of The Spanish Civil War (Graham) are now available in the Library.

I got an email saying that someone reserved the book.

I am just going to assume that whoever it was probably doesn't relish the prospect of doing all the reading in one night. So, I will finish with mine and bring it in, either tomorrow or Tuesday morning.