Entries Tagged as ‘Journalism’

19/03/2010

Digital Storytelling ‘10 – how to follow it

I am at the Digital Storytelling conference at Southbank University today. There are three ways you can follow todays’ action from home/your office:

The Twitterwall created especially for the event, which looks swish.
My own Twitter account, or, quite frankly, anyone who users the #ds10 hashtag.
My own CoverItLive blog, which can be found on my new ‘playground’ [...]

09/03/2010

Getting used to the rat race

The last two days have been fairly productive. I’ve been relatively busy at work experience, producing quite a lot of news content. It’s not the romantic vision that so many students think it is but if you go into a placement with visions of glamour and adventure then I feel that you’ll be disappointed very [...]

05/03/2010

Work experience – why it’s essential regardless of money

Yesterday I managed to score my first bit of work experience for a national music magazine/online publication. I am pretty damn excited over it as I’m hoping it can be the launch pad to a career in music journalism and I couldn’t be more happy. As I began planning travel and calculating costs I was [...]

25/02/2010

February’s Future of News Meetup

I’m in London tonight for the second official Future of News Meetup. It should be pretty good if the last one was anything to go by. With all hope that luck is on my side, I’ll be tweeting from the meetup itself with others (follow me here if you aren’t doing so already). If you [...]

12/02/2010

Brighton Argus launches parliamentary candidate tracker

Earlier in the week the inaugral Brighton Future Of News Meetup was held and heralded a new feature that is now being featured on the website of local paper The Argus – a parliamentary candidate tracker. This allows users and staff from the Argus, providing they have a Google account and can operate Google Maps, [...]