Underage users on Instagram should prepare for new restrictions on their accounts.
Social media has provided athletes with a platform to share their stories, build communities and maintain visibility between the Paralympics.
Should athletes partner with energy drink companies?
Underage users on Instagram should prepare for new restrictions on their accounts.
Social media has provided athletes with a platform to share their stories, build communities and maintain visibility between the Paralympics.
Should athletes partner with energy drink companies?
Building a brand with social media: Lawrie Zion tells the story of upstart magazine at La Trobe University this afternoon at 3:30.
As online social networking grows in popularity, so does the prospect of social media jobs. Jessica Buccolieri spoke to La Trobe University’s former social media coordinator Kara Gibson about the new digital industry and how it is changing the nature of public relations.
Are you interested in exploring the impact of media on social harmony? Are you studying media or journalism? Do you want to hear key figures discuss media, religion and culture? Then the Australian Intercultural Society invites you to attend a free panel-discussion.
An expert panel of journalists and human rights ambassadors will discuss the role of social media in promoting and protecting social change at a seminar at Monash University.
As the social media frenzy continues unabated, are journalists leaning too heavily on online sources? Giulio Di Giorgio chats with veteran public affairs educator and consultant Don Bates to find out.
US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, visited Melbourne for the first time on Sunday. Meghan Lodwick reports on her conversation with Leigh Sales in an auditorium full of young Australians.
Julia Hughan is researching the country music audience and their shift towards online media. She talks with Upstart’s Ryan Jon.
Some articles about journalism are worth reading just because they take the piss out of the way that other pieces about journalism are written. Jarrod Strauch has inducted one such gem into our list of the ‘100 articles’ that every journalist should read about journalism.
Not being able to crack the specialty coffee market has made Starbucks suffer over the years. Yet, as Meghan Lodwick writes, the coffee company may have found a new niche to put it back on top.
Michael Skoler believes that heritage media has much to learn from Web 2.0. A recent piece he wrote for Harvard’s Niemann Reports has been selected by Sarah Green for our list of the the ‘100 articles every journalist should read about journalism’.
Upstart is one year-old this Saturday. Co-founders Lawrie Zion and Chris Scanlon look back on the first twelve months of an experiment that’s resulted in dozens of students and journalists publishing more than 500 items on the site.
A trilogy of articles about Twitter by Australian journalist and academic Julie Posetti led Evan Harding to overcome his inhibitions and start tweeting. And he’s also nominated Posetti’s pieces for inclusion in our ‘100 articles’ project.
Most larger media companies have now issued social media guidelines for their staff. In this selection for our ‘100 articles’ project, Maike Winters discusses what she sees as the merits of such policies.
Coffee is a product that needs little advertising aside from word of mouth. But now, as Meghan Lodwick has found, cafes are using Twitter to spread the word.
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.
In our third in a series of personal reflections about Australia Day, Matt de Neef raises some questions about the meaning of January 26, and the way it’s been covered in the media.
La Trobe University’s Matthew Smith interviews upstart co-founder Lawrie Zion about the changing face of journalism education.
Despite the record heat, upstart has survived the festive break and made it back for the start of a new year. It’s the dawn of 2010, a year we hope holds plenty of exciting developments in store for emerging journalists.
