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Journalism Education ISSN: 2050-3903 Journalism Education The Journal of the Association for Journalism Education Volume one, Number two November 2012 Page 2 Journalism Education Volume 1 number 2 Journalism Education Journalism Education is the journal of the Association for Journalism Education a body representing educators in HE in the UK and Ireland. The aim of the journal is to promote and develop analysis and understanding of journalism education and of journalism, particularly when that is related to journalism education. Editors Mick Temple, Staffordshire University Chris Frost, Liverpool John Moores University Jenny McKay Sunderland University Stuart Allan, Bournemouth University Reviews editor: Tor Clark, de Montfort University You can contact the editors at [email protected] Editorial Board Chris Atton, Napier University Olga Guedes Bailey, Nottingham Trent University David Baines, Newcastle University Guy Berger, Rhodes University Jane Chapman, University of Lincoln Martin Conboy, Sheffield University Ros Coward, Roehampton University Stephen Cushion, Cardiff University Susie Eisenhuth, University of Technology, Sydney Ivor Gaber, Bedfordshire University Roy Greenslade, City University Mark Hanna, Sheffield University Michael Higgins, Strathclyde University John Horgan, Irish press ombudsman. Sammye Johnson, Trinity University, San Antonio, USA Richard Keeble, University of Lincoln Mohammed el-Nawawy, Queens University of Charlotte An Duc Nguyen, Bournemouth University Sarah Niblock, Brunel University Bill Reynolds, Ryerson University, Canada Ian Richards, University of South Australia Verica Rupar, Cardiff University Prasun Sonwalkar, University of the West of England Linda Steiner, University of Maryland, USA Kate Wright, Roehampton University Sonja Merljak Zdovc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia You can contact the editors at [email protected] Editorial Volume 1 number 2 Journalism Education page 3 Volume one number two: Contents Editorial Contributor 4 Editor’s welcome 6 Articles Educating ‘rookies’: might guided problem-based learning help first-year journalism students begin to inter-relate theory and practice? by Kate Wright 8 No cause for celebration: the rise of celebrity news values in the British quality press by Deirdre O’Neill 26 The use of parlour games in teaching journalism by Victoria Neumark Jones 45 Journalists and the bereaved: constructing a positive approach to the teaching of death reporting Jackie Newton and Sallyanne Duncan 59 Comment and criticism Class acts: putting creativity to work by Cathy Darby 68 Enhancing students’ critical thinking in journalism education: An approach using historical primary journalism texts by Grant Hannis 76 Working to a client brief? Offering work-based learning as a valuable addition to work experience in journalism: a case study by Jan Winters 87 Leveson: to regulate or not to regulate? Mick Temple and Chris Frost 92 The Existential Journalist by Ken Pratt 98 Reviews Paul Bradshaw and Liisa Rohumaa The Online Journalism Handbook: Skills to Survive and Thrive in the Digital Age review by Sallyanne Duncan 104 Gary Hudson and Sarah Rowlands The Broadcast Journalism Handbook review by Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu 105 Dennis Griffiths A Century of Journalism 1900-2000 Review by Claire Wolfe 106 Peter Lee-Wright, Angela Phillips and Tamara Witschge Changing Journalism review by Mick Temple 107 Bookshelf classic: David Randall The Universal Journalist review by Tor Clark 108 Editorial Page 4 Journalism Education Volume 1 number 2 Contributors Grant Hannis Dr Grant Hannis heads the journalism programme at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. He teaches news writing, grammar, journalism history, business journalism, media law and media ethics, and has published numerous academic journal articles. Prior to coming to Massey in 2003, he worked for 14 years as a senior journalist at Consumer magazine, the New Zealand equivalent of Which?. In 2010, as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, he was based at San Francisco State University, where he taught business journal- ism and researched the depiction of Chinese gold miners in the 19th-century Californian press. Ken Pratt Ken Pratt is Lecturer in Journalism at UWS (University of the West of Scotland). He was previously a news reporter and finalist at the Guardian International Development Journalism Awards for his disturbing reportage from DR Congo and Uganda. An ex-staffer on Sunday newspapers in Scotland and England, his work now uses personal experiences to explore a hidden narrative behind the reporter’s prose. He received a Ph (D) from Glasgow University in 2009 for his first novel Hunting Captain Henley. Ken has since written three other novels and is a member of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies. Kate Wright An award-winning journalist, Kate worked in BBC News for ten years, including on flagships such as Radio 4’s Today programme, and Newshour, the English-language flagship for BBC World Service. Her career highlights include working with survivors in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and conducting investiga- tive research which helped lead to a conviction for murder being overturned. She is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Roehampton, and is also working on a PhD at Goldsmiths about the involvement of NGOs in the news coverage of Africa. Her other research interests include international news, radio journalism, epistemology, and media ethics. Deirdre O’Neill Deirdre O’Neill has been teaching both the practice and theory of journalism for more than 15 years, in- cluding undergraduate modules such as Practical Journalism, Journalism in Society and Reporting Conflict. She has a science background, initially working on medical and science publications, before moving into more mainstream magazine journalism. She taught NCTJ courses in Yorkshire while also working in the marketing department of a large FE college as a press officer. Since coming to Leeds Trinity, she has helped develop undergraduate journalism and also contributes to MA journalism provision. She has published research into news values, trade union coverage and the local press. Her research interests include news values, news access and news sources, focussing on newspapers. She is currently researching the coverage of women in sport in the press. In July 2012 she was elected Secretary of the Association for Journalism Education. Grant Hannis Dr Grant Hannis heads the journalism programme at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. He teaches journalism history, media law and ethics, news writing and business journalism. His research inter- ests include journalism history, diversity in reporting and consumer journalism. Prior to coming to Massey he was for many years a senior financial journalist at Consumer magazine, the New Zealand equivalent of Which? and Consumer Reports. Cathy Darby Catherine Darby is a senior lecturer who joined the University of Central Lancashire full-time in 2002 as Journalism course leader for Combined Honours. Before that she was part-time print lecturer and news sub-editor on the Lancashire Evening Post. She had previously worked as a Daily Mail sub-editor, foreign Editorial Volume 1 number 2 Journalism Education page 5 desk sub editor and surveys editor at the Financial Times, chief sub-editor at Country Life and sub-editor / researcher at Woman’s Weekly. She set up the award-winning MA in Magazine Journalism in 2004, wrote on magazine journalism for Careers in Media and Film (Sage 2007) and is currently external examiner for BA (Hons) Journalism and Fashion Journalism at Sunderland University. Mick Temple Mick Temple is Professor of Journalism & Politics at Staffordshire University. His single-authored books include The British Press (2008), Blair (2006) and How Britain Works: From Ideology to Output Politics (2000). He has published extensively on many areas of politics and the media, including recent articles in Political Studies, New Perspective and Politics. He broadcasts regularly on current affairs for radio and television, and is an election night analyst for BBC Midlands TV. Mick is a convenor for the Media & Poli- tics group of the Political Studies Association, a former AJE chair, and one of the co-editors of Journalism Education. Sallyanne Duncan Dr Sallyanne Duncan is Programme Director of the MLitt Digital Journalism course at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Her research focuses on reporting trauma, suicide and mental health, and bereavement, particularly concerning the individual family. She has published on narrative styles in death reporting, the ethics of reporting women asylum seekers, ethics codes for bloggers, and with Jackie New- ton on preparing novice journalists for the death knock and the use of social media in death reporting. Her doctoral thesis examined the pressures placed on, and the processes undertaken by, journalists who cover large-scale disasters and personal traumatic experiences.. Jackie Newton Jackie Newton is a senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University and a former print reporter and editor. A psychology graduate with a masters in educational management, she is particularly interested in journalists’ relations with the bereaved and associated sensitive interviewing. Jackie has published on bereaved families’ varying responses to news media intrusion and written papers and a book chapter on death reporting with Dr Sallyanne Duncan of the University of Strathclyde. She has also worked on jour- nalism