Biography
If you want the short biog...
I'm a fortysomething former slacker turned hackademic. Live in London. Teach in London. Spend a lot of my life on the tube. Don't blog as much as I should. Read a lot, but not as much as I'd like to. Have three kids and one v. understanding, v.tolerant, v. wonderful partner. That's all you need to know really.
But if you want to know more...
What I used to do:
I was a journalist - for style mags, men's mags and the papers - mainly The Guardian and The Observer, mostly on the net and new media in general.
In theory I still am a journalist - I still write things every now and then for Adbusters magazine. But it's hard to find the time at the moment to go chasing commissions.
I've also worked for the BBC - as a kind of new media R&D consultant. And I spent a small chunk of my life developing a drama idea for BBC1. In the end it came to nothing much but was pretty interesting along the way.
I was briefly the interactive writer in residence at the BBC - and developed a weblog-based narrative, that also came to nothing much in the end, but was also pretty interesting along the way.
I still sort of work for the BBC every now and then. Recently I did some consultancy work (about personal media technologies and their impact on the arts) for them.
What I do now:
Teach journalism. I'm now the Principal Lecturer/Course Leader on the BA (Hons) Journalism degree course at the University of Westminster.
Before that I was a senior lecturer in the Journalism department at the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester. I was at the Farnham campus.
I teach magazine journalism, features writing, some of the media/journalism studies options and all the online journalism stuff.
Hence my various weblogs, which I set up whilst I was at Farnham.
Now I'm at the University of Westminster. I'm going to set up some new blogs.
In theory.
You can contact me at jimdotmcclellanatvirgindotnet
Or leave comments here somewhere.
