Radio Journalism Masterclass notes: Trip to City University London

Taster Lecture notes: This taster lecture was given by Richard Evans who is the Senior Lecturer in journalism in City University London:

• Richard Evans used to work at the BBC as a presenter, but left the BBC for teaching 6 years ago.
• Richard Evans has a lot of experience in journalism.
• Journalism is a broad subject and many things make up its definition such as: journalism is: sticking your nose in other peoples businesses, giving information to people according to what they want to hear also giving information to people according to what they need to hear and other.
• Recently, there is the perception that journalism has become opinion based and this is due to citizen journalists, such as bloggers and vloggers (video bloggers). In these blogs and vlogs citizen journalist broadcast news, but tend to be subjective when  broadcasting information/news.
• The opposite of citizen journalists are professional journalists, and such journalists avoid imputing opinions although, the proximity of news may be close to them. Secondly, another difference between citizen journalists and professional journalists is that, professional journalists make a living out of journalism, whereas citizen journalists do not. 
• Journalism has changed as time has gone on and technological advancement is forcing journalists to adapt, as when Richard Evans was first sent out to find news and report back, he had to first find a public phone, as in the past there were no portable phones or internet to report back to the news station without a payphone.
• From this taster lecture, I have learnt that journalism is very broad, this means that there are many careers journalism can lead on to. In addition, I learnt that it is important for journalists to keep up with time and changes in society, as they must adapt to these changes, because that will be the only way journalists can reach a broad audience.

Radio workshop held by Sandy Warr notes: 

• Sandy specializes in radio news presenting, she used to work as a presenter in the Breakfast show (radio 1 BBC) and currently works as a sports news presenter on radio station "talksport".
• Normally, on the radio a little bit of an interviews is put on broadcast, while the long interview is uploaded on to the radios website. 
• When broadcasting news it is always important to attribute news to the source.
• News is giving people information from both sides of a story to help them decide who they agree with, who they disagree with, or figure out whether they have an alternately different opinion.
• When producing news there is no democracy as the editor is always right, although the editor may be wrong.