Freelance Unbound

We use them to help take out the Taliban’s leadership (with more or less accuracy) – but there is a more noble potential mission for the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. Yes – drone journalism. Get those radio-controlled suckers in the air and use their onboard cameras to help the fourth estate carry out its role to [...]

The offer from “Whitney Meyer” of $50 for a spam link in a post specifically saying I am not interested in taking money for spam links was good. But “Carrie Oakley” has gone one better. She picked the post I used to say Whitney was an idiot for picking such an inappropriate post as her chosen [...]

Just arrived in the Freelance Unbound inbox – an almost irresistible offer from “Whitney Meyer” for inserting spam links into this very blog. Dear Freelance Unbound, I just got done reading your “Bribery and corruption? Sadly, I think you have the wrong blog…” and I found it really interesting! Do you do advertising? I’m marketing [...]

Nearly a century after the end of World War One, Farnham residents believe Poppy Day has as much relevance to them and their children as ever, while young British men and women fight abroad for their country. Jack Keene reports for UCA Journalism News. [NB: so, that Posterous syndication is still working, then. I thought [...]

Seeking a suitable put-down for the teenage burglar who wrote “a disgraceful letter” to his victims as part of a so-called restorative justice programme, today’s Metro contemptuously brands it “an illiterate note”. I mean, what more can you expect from some hoodie scum who breaks in to people’s houses and then calls them thick? I have [...]

Oh dear – journalism undergraduate workies at the BBC? Or maybe just someone under 30 editing the Radio 4 programme pages. From the current Woman’s Hour Drama page, a classic “who’s/whose” muddle. Why, oh why, oh why, BBC…  

This year at UCA Farnham, we are using Posterous as our first-year multiplatform journalism unit blogging tool. Halfway into the semester, how is it working out? Not badly, actually. Here are the pros and cons. Cons first. Cons That Posterous redesign that happened in September. Oh, how that sucked. There’s a pretty good account here [...]

Spotted – very briefly – on the BBC news site on Sunday: a rib-tickling double-entendre headline that bored sub-editors probably enjoyed writing a bit too much. Sadly, if unsurprisingly, wiser heads prevailed and the head was quickly changed. I don’t know why, but the second headline just doesn’t seem mucky – even though it uses [...]

The death of two-year-old Isobel Dobson in a van fire last Friday is now being treated as “suspicious” by police, who have arrested a 37-year-old man in connection with the incident. Could this be the same 37-year-old man who tried to save her on Friday? Her stepfather, in fact? BBC online sub-editors seem to think [...]