Another event of interest to everyone involved in digital storytelling
The Department of Journalism at Uclan is about to launch MELD
MELD is an ideas-generation and development workshop bringing together journalists and interactive designers to tell stories in ways we haven’t thought of yet
Selected journalists will be paid to join new media practitioners at a five-day residential [...]

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A few work related  events have come across my desk in one way or another that may be of interest.
 First up is the 7th Journalism leaders forum at Uclan on the 16th October. The event, Local Turf Wars Notes from the digital news frontline, includes contributions from:
Andy Mitten, a graduate of the department who, at [...]

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and those that would take advantage…

Why? 

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I spent the day with a bunch of very motivated South African journos who are tasked with doing multimedia. In fact engaging, or should that be wrestling, with digital in a big, profound way. I have four more days with these guys and it feels exciting. I’m feeling equally scared and blessed to [...]

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Every so often I realize just how the posts on this blog have mounted up and how stuff that is always worth remembering gets lost in the archives. Blogrolls work okay, popular posts links cover some of the stuff but every now and then I think it’s worth reminding myself of the good stuff that [...]

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I listen to Radio 4 veraciously and I always tune in to their morning news programme, Today.
Recently two things have really annoyed me about the show. The first is the noise of people typing in the background as interviews take place. Are you listening or typing - you can’t do both!
The second and admittedly less [...]

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I’ve been away again. This time to do a bit of the fringe at Edinburgh - Great fun.
I’m straight in to more training and prep for my courses in September so posting may be a little lighter than usual.
In the meantime here is something completly unrelated. Saw a band called Wildes Holz at the fringe.
According [...]

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I’m doing more training at the moment and whilst chatting about editing  I was reminded of a clip I had from Charlie Brooker’s Screen Wipe programme. As an intro to the impact editing has it’s pretty good and the reality show example is great. 
Someone else has uploaded it to Youtube so give it a watch [...]

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