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By Carolyn Wickware February 29, 2016March 7, 2019 The XCityPlus Archives

Top 5 headlines destroyed by SEO

Online sub-editors are facing a necessary evil in the newsroom: SEO. And it’s draining the creativity out of headlines. In the never-ending race to the top of Google’s results pages, click-hungry journalists are trading in the wit of a deft headline for searchable keywords that boost search engine optimisation. If more newspapers

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By Luke Terry February 29, 2016March 2, 2017 The XCityPlus Archives

Ex-City student misses out on Oscar for Best Documentary Short

An ex-City magazine student missed out on the Oscar for Best Documentary Short at the 88th annual Academy Awards. Adam Benzine, who completed his PGdip in Magazine Journalism in 2005, wrote, directed and produced the nominated film: Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah. The self-financed film, which took four years to make

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