Put up or shut up

We academics are a funny group of people. We spend our days sitting in relatively well furnished buildings dispensing the building blocks of information to the generation that is going to fix the mess we have made. But as a rule we academics do very little when it comes to actually practicing what we teach! [...]

Content Curator New Job Title

I don’t know how often you read Robin Good but there is no question if you are into tech applications and dare I say New Media, even convergence/divergence, this is a must read blog. Yes we need more local coverage of ideas and issues, maybe that means we need more journalists. But I dare say [...]

The new world of work

THE 2009 DALTON CAMP LECTURE IN JOURNALISM Listen One of the toughest parts of working in education is knowing that you are teaching a group of students of which some will go into careers that at this exact moment do not exist. So, the question has to be, am I giving them the skills they [...]

Professor training?

I wonder. I wonder why it is we send students on internships YET we do not see professors going on yearly internships themselves? It is great that professors write papers BUT what about every professor spending 10 weeks a year in industry? This professor internship could be amazing for the academy and amazing for business. [...]