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The New Online Journalists #4: Kasper Sorensen

As part of an ongoing series on recent graduates who have gone into online journalism, Sonderborg portal web editor Kasper Sorensen talks about what got him the job, what it involves, and where it might go next. (Disclosure: I taught Kasper) As with most jobs, experience is always a problem for new graduates. Everyone has a degree, but what sets
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3 weeks in: launching a Midlands environmental news site

3 weeks ago my class of online journalism students were introduced to the website they were going to be working on: BirminghamRecycled.co.uk – environmental news for Birmingham and the West Midlands. The site has been built by final year journalism degree student Kasper Sorensen, who studied the online journalism module last year. In building and running the service Kasper has
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#twask : Help teach twitter

If you have a few minutes to spare this afternoon, log in to Twitter and look for the hashtag #twask. What is #twask? Well, anyone wanting to ask a question about Twitter can use the tag – and anyone answering those questions can do the same. Questions find answers. Hopefully. The whole thing is the idea of final year journalism
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Maps, mashups and multimedia: online journalism students tackle interactivity

As a new semester begins it seems a good time to finally post about how my second year journalism degree students approached the ‘interactive’ element of their portfolio way back in May (yes, everything they do is interactive, but bear with me). For the first time I gave them an open brief in terms of what they did interactively (in
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