By Thinking of new and inventive ways to deliver a story before anyone else can seem pretty daunting, but there are tools that make it simpler. Here are 12 apps for the iPhone designed to make your life that little bit easier: 1. Pocket This user-friendly app lets you to store articles,
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By XCity Award 2016 shortlist revealed: Adam Benzine
Academy Award nominee Adam Benzine has been shortlisted for the 2016 XCity Award, continuing his run of success in 2016. Mr Benzine (Magazine PGDip, 2006) received an Oscar nomination for his documentary Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah. It was among five films to be shortlisted in the Best Documentary
By How to: Be a succesful media power couple
City has been producing top quality journalists for 40 years, but it has also been instrumental in bringing like-minded people together. We asked two couples whose love blossomed at City how being a media power couple has helped and (possibly) hindered their careers in journalism. The Couples Janice Turner, columnist and
By Podcast: The making of XCity episode 3 – News and Features
The XCity Podcast is a five-part series about the making of City’s annual magazine, XCity. Each episode gives a little teaser of what to expect from this year’s epic 40th anniversary publication, as well as anecdotes about the production process. We share the highs and the lows, the tears and
By XCity Award 2016 shortlist revealed: George Arbuthnott
For the second year running, George Arbuthnott (Investigative, 2009) has been shortlisted for the XCity Award. The deputy insight editor at The Sunday Times has accumulated various accolades since his last nomination. In December 2015, he and his team at The Sunday Times won ‘Breaking News Story’ at the British
By Old News: An old take on new media (2000)
Bill Thompson, honorary visiting fellow at City and now head of partnership development at BBC Online, takes us on a trip to the year 2000 in our last edition of Old News. It was a time when journalists were quaking in their boots at the prospect of the web and the
By XCity Award 2016 shortlist revealed: Jenny McCall
A City alumna who won the Modern Slavery Media Award for exposing the UK’s failure to protect victims of trafficking has been shortlisted for this year’s XCity Award. Jenny McCall (Science, 2014) is an independent journalist. Last year, Ms McCall wrote an article for openDemocracy, titled: ‘Just how badly does the
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By Inside the life of a motoring journalist
Ever wanted to drive flashy cars every day and get paid for it? Vicky Parrott, deputy motor reviews editor at What Car? and AutoCar, gets to do just that. She’s based in Feltham and Twickenham in Surrey, but Parrott is rarely in the office. Instead, she’s out test driving cars on the
By Poll: Overheard in the newsroom
We journalists love to think we have a way with words, but frankly some of what comes out of our mouths is downright ridiculous. We’ve collected some of the funniest overheards from news and features desks around the country. Vote for your favourite below:
By Video: Reporting the Eritrean refugee crisis
There are 5,000 refugees fleeing the North African country, Eritrea, every month. It is the second biggest refugee crisis after Syria, but their stories rarely reach the world’s press. Reporters Without Borders have called Eritrea a “blackhole of information”, ranking its press freedom the worst in the world for the past eight years. Investigative
