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Media
MusicTank launches journalism course
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 13 August 2010
Given the latest ABCs, I’m not sure there’ll be many music journalist jobs left very soon. But at least those that remain can be well trained.
The University Of Westminster’s MusicTank organisation is teaming up for Lulu Le Vay, a former Sleazenation deputy editor, to launch a new eight week music journalism course. Organisers say they are creating the course in response to a perceived slump in standards in the music journalism, in part due to resources being cut at the big music titles and partly because an increasing amount of music editorial coverage comes from bedroom reviewers.
Actually, I think there’s always been some terrible music journalism out there (and plenty of terrible journalism in general), though as the amount of grass roots and amateur music commentary has increased online it is probably true the good to bad ratio has tipped towards the bad somewhat.
The new course, called Word Up, will cover all the basics on the music media and wider music industry, and include some guest spots for music and media people. For more details go here: www.musictank.co.uk/events/words-up
