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Social Mobility and Journalism Education
As a class escapee, I’ve always been interested in social mobility. What drives it? Well, here’s an interesting analysis from the January 2009 edition of the American Journal of Sociology: Microclass Mobility: Social Reproduction in Four Countries (subscription). It should interest journalists and their social-mobility-minded offspring.
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Operation Snakebite by Stephen Grey
There are plenty of opportunities in this world to die prematurely in your line of work. But only one – soldiering – that requires politicians or the public to give that death meaning.
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City University’s New Graduate J-School
Some great pictures of City’s new J-School. (Well, I like them…)
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Journalism Education: My Unfinished Business
Whenever people ask me why I left television news (a world which – I have to say – I loved) to run a J-School, I never give the real answer. Because the real answer is just the name of someone they (and you) probably won’t ever have heard of: Richard Wild.