Please help us welcome a new cohort of emerging journalists to the blogosphere. Here’s the first pick of the produce from La Trobe Journalism’s first year students.
First-year students at La Trobe University have started blogging en masse. Here’s where they’re up to.
With print media still on the steady decline, fashion lovers are turning to blogs to get their daily dose of style, writes Stephanie Azzopardi.
Please help us welcome a new cohort of emerging journalists to the blogosphere. Here’s the first pick of the produce from La Trobe Journalism’s first year students.
First-year students at La Trobe University have started blogging en masse. Here’s where they’re up to.
With print media still on the steady decline, fashion lovers are turning to blogs to get their daily dose of style, writes Stephanie Azzopardi.
This afternoon at 4, join author, journalist and blogger Margaret Simons at La Trobe University’s Dilemmas in Journalism class to discuss ethics and online journalism. The lecture will be held in the Economics Lecture Theatre and everyone is welcome.
What does the recent controversy about the identity of a blogger say about the state of the Australian media? Quite a lot, says Luke S.H. Raggatt, who believes that the Fourth Estate should focus less on itself and more on producing quality journalism.
Every day new blogs are created but unfortunately, as Kelly Theobald discusses, some governments feel threatened by the independent thought and expression of their citizens.
Upstart co-editor Matt de Neef has had eight articles published in Crikey during the first two weeks of his internship there. And then there’s the one that didn’t make it …
A blog post about a journalist who decided to leave the newspaper business after nearly four decades has been selected by Jean Kemshal-Bell for for inclusion in upstart’s ‘100 articles’ that every journalist should read about journalism list.
Monica Zen examines the popularity of genealogy related television shows and how they are influencing the blogosphere.
Much as been said about the relationship between blogging and journalism. But as James Briggs argues in this selection for our 100 articles project, few have said it quite as well as Jason Whittaker, who has recently been appointed the Deputy Editor of Crikey.
Is there money in blogging? Can you make a living out of it? Matt de Neef asks these questions and more as he speaks with professional blogger Jaime McDougall.
Episode three of upcast continues our journey into the world of blogging as we speak to 3 student bloggers.
In our series of bloggers’ tales, we hear from Lydia Sawtell, a budding fashion journalist with a stylish blog.
As part of our new bloggers series, Jennifer Duke explains why Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy inspired her to blog the Pride and Prejudice way.
In the first of our new series of blogger’s tales, Kiefer Findlow tells how he went from writing about teen angst to critiquing cinema.
Eleven days ago Lindsay Schwietz began a 30-day experiment to eat only home-cooked food. For someone who normally eats out twice a day, this is one of the hardest things she’s ever done.
If you have a blog, upstart wants to hear from you. Get in touch with us at contact@upstart.net.au.
Take a bunch of food bloggers and posse of baristas keen to show their skills, and what have you got? Meghan Lodwick found out.
With the rapid convergence of traditional journalism and newer online technologies, many people argue that bloggers should be bound by a Code of Ethics. Matt de Neef provides ten tips for ethical blogging.
Got a passion for reading, writing and publishing? ABC Radio National’s The Book Show is looking for young writers for a new blog. But be warned, only book worms need apply.
Is the MEAA Code of Ethics too general for restaurant reviewers? Lisa Rosman talks to Ed Charles, food journalist and blogger extraordinaire about the tricks of the trade and the ethics of reviewing food.
Hungry home chef Lorraine Elliott talks to Penny Evangelou about her blogging alter ego “Not Quite Nigella” and explains why she gave up her first love of fashion for butter and her blog.
She’s not a stylist, a magazine editor or even a writer – yet Raez is leading the next legion of super savvy cyber-fashion royalty, making her mark online with a buzzed-about style blog called Cheap Thrills. Liz Bacchetti caught up with her.
