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Theory of Devolution: blogging about a blog
Late last year I started up a niche blog on devolved politics with two like-minded individuals, Neil Pooran and Dave Baxter. With a couple of months under our belts, and with 2011 up and running nicely, I thought this would be a good time to look back at what we’ve done, assess how it’s gone […]
Posted in: Online Journalism, Politics
Capture Cardiff: Penarth Youth Project could close because of lack of funding
December 17, 2010
This year the Penarth Youth Project was forced to close down its centre on Stanwell Road, in the centre of the town of Penarth, because of a lack of funding. Its Information Centre, as it was called, was frequented by young people from all backgrounds and despite facing tough times, the Youth Project has kept going […]
Paying for content? Really?
December 11, 2010
Can news ever be free? Can anyone ever bite the bullet any hand over some of their hard earned cash for something as etherial as news? These are the questions that arose during Robert Andrews’s lecture this week. Robert is the UK editor of PaidContent, a website that looks at the digital end of the […]
Posted in: Online Journalism
Where are you? The Joys of Hyperlocal
December 2, 2010
What is local journalism? Is it news based or information based? This is one of the quandaries of hyperlocal journalism. Once upon a time, local newspapers would have covered everything going on in a community, whether it was interesting or not. They were called newspapers of record, or “parish pumps”. Since then, local newspapers have […]
Posted in: Journalism, Online Journalism
What the US thinks of Berlusconi
November 29, 2010
The recent release of thousands of US diplomatic messages by Wikileaks has, inevitably, caused some controversy. The revelations about what the US thinks of Berlusconi, however, have been interesting. The Italian Prime Minister is accused of being very close to Vladimir Putin. The two have held frequent bilateral meetings and even holiday together. This worried […]
Data Journalism
November 27, 2010
Help! Suddenly journalism has become all mathematical and complicated. Apart from the fact that I had a lecture on the ins and outs of council tax this week which really made my head hurt, I was also told about data journalism, i.e. the crunching of numbers until something interesting pops out. Data journalism is the […]
Posted in: Online Journalism
Does Italian politics have a generational problem?
November 21, 2010
Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano, said yesterday that “The participation of younger generations, of workers, of citizens, in political life is fundamental”. He went on to warn of the risks of such a separation between the political classes and the people they are supposed to represent. But when he’s 85 and first entered politics in 1992, […]
Posted in: Italian Politics, Politics
Communities and Paywalls
November 20, 2010
Joanna Geary got us all thinking in our online journalism lecture this week. The web development editor of The Times asked us why it was that we chose journalism and while I decided that it was because it satisfied my natural curiosity, what Joanne told us this week was that looking after that community that […]
Posted in: Online Journalism
What prospects for change in Italy?
November 18, 2010
It’s just about made it into the British news, but on December 14 the Italian government, led. of course, by Silvio Berlusconi, will face a confidence vote. The reasons for this are protracted, complicated, and not particularly well covered in Britain. In July this year, the government was stripped of its majority when the Speaker […]
Posted in: Italian Politics, Politics
Everything about Penarth
November 13, 2010
Here’s a map of Penarth, my ward for the next year, where I’ve pointed out some points of interest.
Posted in: Online Journalism, Penarth
Damian Fantato 
February 17, 2011
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