Teaching

From supervising junior reporters as their news editor, to training tomorrow’s journalists as their course leader, teaching is a massive part of what I do and how I work.

I joined the journalism and media production teaching team at York St John in April 2019, from teaching journalism at Staffordshire University. I’m now Associate Head for Production in the School of Art at YSJU, leading our teaching teams across media and music production as well as journalism, and continuing to teach both practice and theory.

In 11 years at Staffs uni, I created and led new modules in entrepreneurial journalism, future journalism, web-based journalism (distance learning), games journalism, blogging and vlogging. As well as co-teaching on practical and theoretical journalism modules, news days, and in photojournalism. That multimedia approach to journalism teaching has continued in my move to York SJ, where I’m also delivering modules in magazine design, digital production and multimedia news days.

My teaching is informed by my research, itself focused on where journalism is or might be going and the societal opportunities and threats posed by social media.

I continue to do what I teach, setting up websites as public outlets for my students’ journalism, running my own sites and social media, and writing for magazines and news outlets.