Year One - HCJ - Karl Marx and 1848 and - ALL STUDENTS - TIME TO USE YOU TUBE!

I have uploaded an hour long lecture about Karl Marx (similar to the first part of the lecture given in person last week) to the WINCHESTER JOURNALISM YOU TUBE CHANNEL.

You will also find I three part additional webcast lecture there on the revolutions of 1848 (or at least the events in France, Germany and a tiny bit about Austria and Poland). This should help you with the context for the Communist Manifesto which is the reading for the first seminar back after easter.

You can also find notes on the lecture here:

http://journalism.winchester.ac.uk/?page=413

I am not going to post any more HCJ-1 videos for a while, but I think I am going to put some HCJ-2 stuff up there about The New Journalism and Tom Wolfe and so on - much more fun. Also we are going to soon start making a lot of "How To" videos about journalism itself... We also have a re-jig on the various websites on the go. So stay tuned.

It would be very helpful if person who use these videos could leave a comment when you have done so. This helps promote use of the channel and also gives us a good idea of whether the effort we are putting in to these back-up web lectures is worth it. To do this all you need to do is create a You Tube account. This is a good place to display your video packages (already made in the case of years 2 and 3; and forthcoming after easter when you start doing video journalism and TV journalism.)

So please get a You Tube account as well as a blog. You can then also do great things like easily embed your You Tube videos on your Blogger blogs...

Here's a example of a student I had at Westminster University (two years ago) who was an MA student. these were the packages he made for Westminster News Online (WNOL as opposed to WINOL). This student James Hassan is very nice and doing well now I think at the BBC. So check it out. I notice that he has not been updating since leaving college - but he does not really need to do so since he is now a reporter/producer at the BBC.

SEE JAMES HASSAM

This should cheer people up because as you will see while the standard James reached as a student was god, it is not notably better than the work most second and third years are doing on WINOL - and WINOL is far, far more advanced.

James now apparently has an entry level job at the BBC in Bristol and has a great career ahead of him. But whether you can work as a journa,]ism (and WINOL is sincerely the best preparation in the country) and whether the jobs will be there... well that's a different matter. But people will always want news and stories, so it should be OK is we can ride the ups and downs of the economic cycle.

So please do set up your own You Tube channel over easter. This will enable you to leave comments on videos on the Winchester Journalism channel. Also if you do not have your own packages in place already, then you can cut these on the editing machines after easter and upload.

It worked for James Hassam. And it can work for you.