Freelance Unbound

Of the blogs I read, I enjoy one from a blogger called Coyote in Arizona who periodically fisks journalists for being innumerate, with a very poor understanding of economics. One of his posts from last year took the local media to task for not questioning the dubious economic benefits of a publicly funded new sports [...]

I posted here about Paul Bradshaw’s interesting video touching on the inflexibility of journalism education. I was surprised about this – until I started having more to do with journalism colleges. You’d think colleges and universities would be falling over themselves to offer what employers wanted. But it’s not quite so. Why should this be? [...]

Just back from Animated Exeter, where I spent the weekend helping kids do cut-out animation in the Animarathon workshop and generally stood around in a fetching light blue T-shirt being “young and animated” as they put it, wandered around with a clipboard and helped out with ushering and taking tickets. Of the two, the workshop [...]