Newswire’s September election poll

NewsWire’s first ever political phone poll – a survey of voters in the Wellington area – has produced interesting results.
Conventional polls don’t seem to display the entire picture  – like the total number of calls made, how many declined to participate and how many are still undecided – but we did.

Surely those figures contribute to the [...]

The journalism education debate

A pretty heated exchange has broken out between Martin Hirst (who heads NZ’s largest J School) and Jim Tucker (head of the second largest).
Basically, they’re debating whether a university course or a polytech (a.k.a trades) course is a better approach to journalism education – here at Mindy McAdams blog and here at Pat Thornton’s.
Now yes I know Jim is my [...]