Every day, a student or staff member from the Centre for Journalism chooses a notable piece of journalism.

  • richardpendry
    Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 23:34

    As the war in Afghanistan enters its final chapter, Sean Smith's brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of a stalemate that is taking its toll in blood
     

  • richardpendry
    Monday, July 26, 2010 - 15:30

    The Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel have published a huge cache of secret military files from the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, detailing the war in Afghanistan. Julian Assange of Wikileaks is holding a press conference at noon today at the Frontline Club. The conference will be broadcast live. Nick Davies also tells the fascinating story of how this information came to be released.

     

  • Ian Reeves
    Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 22:50

    Andrew Marr's My Trade, tracing the history of British journalism, is quite rightly required reading for all students at the CfJ. Today he kicks off a series for the revamped BBC web site by looking to the future. His conclusions may be of some reassurance to those wondering where their studies might lead them, or whether we're right to keep banging on about this notion of convergent journalism: "Just a few years ago, I was shaking my head and saying I thought I'd had the best of times for journalism, and wouldn't want my children to join the trade. No longer. I'd like to be 20 and starting out again right now."

  • TimLuckhurst
    Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 14:22

    This audio slideshow for the BBC website tells the story of four giant pictures by the artist Frederick Cayley Robinson. They were  commissioned one hundred years ago to adorn the entrance to the Middlesex Hospital and might have been lost forever when it was demolished. They are now on display at the National Gallery.

  • TimLuckhurst
    Wednesday, July 7, 2010 - 09:20

    Banish propriety, abandon caution and prepare to laugh: Julie Burchill, the 51 year-old former 'hip young gun slinger' and, more recently, superstar polemicist, has a new column in the Independent. There are several reasons to celebrate - let's start with the evidence that Alexander Lebedev can afford to invest in expensive columnists - but king among them - for me at least - is that JB remains an acute, challenging and funny voice in a market where too many are  constrained by fear that they might offend somoene. She will offend lots of people, deliberately. Read her first Indy column here.    

  • Ian Reeves
    Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 08:58

    For the best piece of writing on England's shambolic performance against Germany in South Africa, it stands to reason that we must turn to an Irishman writing in an American magazine. Roddy Doyle has form writing a good game; his description in The Van (I think, though I prepare to stand corrected) of Ireland's 1990 World Cup penalty shoot-out is terrific. And his piece for the New Yorker shows he's lost none of that lightness of touch. He starts the piece wanting to back England to demonstrate his country's post-post-Colonial state. He ends it "cheering on every German attack and sneering at everything English." A friend texts him. “'Did u see the disallowed goal?' I texted back: 'Yeah. A disgrace.' Then I added, 'Brilliant.'"

     
  • richardpendry
    Monday, June 21, 2010 - 13:36

    A ludicrously botched bank robbery leads to the question, Can you be too incompetent to understand just how incompetent you are?
    Errol Morris is a filmmaker whose movie “The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara” won the Academy Award for best documentary feature in 2004. He is also one of those annoying people who never seems to produce any piece of work that is less than brilliant, even when in this case it is "just" an fanciful little blog entry.

  • richardpendry
    Friday, June 18, 2010 - 10:43

    Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes in Kyrgyzstan because of violence between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks. Reyhan Demitri travelled to the Kyrgyz city of Osh to find out more.
     

  • richardpendry
    Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 09:30

    The UN Security Council has condemned the escalating ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan, calling for calm and the restoration of order following the bloodiest ethnic clashes seen in the region since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

    Self-op online and TV reporter Robin Forestier-Walker reports from the Uzbek side. Robin feeds the VO and pictures to Doha, where they assemble his video story. Shows what you can do solo in a difficult situation.

  • TimLuckhurst
    Monday, June 14, 2010 - 10:33

    When I woke up this morning, I really wanted to know what main street USA thought about a certain football match. The Guardian's Lawrence Donegan (former bass player in Lloyd Cole and the Commotions  and author of books including Four Iron in the Soul and No News at Throat Lake) tells me in this brilliant column.