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Sentenced to five year’s jail (in absentia) for ‘teaching Egyptian journalists how to Tweet’
Natasha Tynes (International Journalism, 2002) tells her story in Huffington Post World.
City Summer Sounds Music Festival
10th – 28th June. Featuring City’s wealth of talented performers and composers alongside guest artists and friends of the Centre for Music Studies. All concerts are free to attend but due to limited space places must be booked in advance.
Music alumnus takes command of Dutch ballet
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Newsfreed – a crowd funding platform for investigative journalism
Laura Secorun Palet, one of this year’s CitySpark winners, is currently trying to raise money to launch her business idea, Newsfreed – a crowd funding platform for investigative journalism via a crowd funding campaign on RocketHub. More information
Journalism graduate wins prestigious Washington Post fellowship
Billy Kenber, a graduate of City’s MA in Investigative Journalism course, wins the Laurence Stern Fellowship award. Read full article
Simon Rogers (Newspaper Journalism 1991) joins Twitter as data editor
Simon Rogers is moving to San Francisco to take up the role of data editor at Twitter at the end of May. Rogers, who set up the datablog at the Guardian in 2009, will relocate to San Francisco, with the … Continue reading
Ellie Austin discusses her experience of editing the 27th edition of Journalism alumni magazine, XCity.
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James Harding (Newspaper Journalism 1994) appointed BBC’s Director of News and Current Affairs
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Fallen women, moody bitches, and stupid southerners: Language usage in thrillers and their translation
Date: 22 May This talk explores the translation of detective stories and the ideology that shapes them, using examples from Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s ten books about Martin Beck (1965 – 1975) and Stieg Larsson’s three books about Lisbeth … Continue reading
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