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Andy Dickinson

Andy Dickinson

Andy is a Senior lecturer in Journalism at Manchester Metropolitan University where he is the program lead for the MA Multimedia Journalism.

📍 Manchester

Diagnosing the noble disease - how we treat journalism in the 21st century.

This is the original script to a short presentation I gave University of Northampton’s ‘Imagine Journalism in Ten Years’ Time [http://www.northampton.ac.uk/events/event/782/]‘ mini-conference chaired by Kevin Marsh [http://twitter.com/kjmarsh], and organised byJohn Mair [http://twitter.com/johnmair100]. Other speakers included:Professor

It's not SEO it's human linkbait

[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Quinoa_closeup.jpg/640px-Quinoa_closeup.jpg] As optimisation (and seo) are on my mind at the moment [http://digidickinson.net/2013/03/01/ivory-tower-dispatch-headlines-seo-and-wordpress-com/] , it was nice to see an article on the fears of populism in the age of search

Ivory tower dispatch: Headlines, SEO and Wordpress.com

Online Journalists can learn a lot about optimising content from the likes of the Daily Mail but can we put it in to practice on WordPress.com blogs? Over the last few weeks I’ve been talking to first year journalists about blogging and the starting point is why blogging

In praise of the Final Salute

> They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. It begins with a knock at the door. Making documentaries has put me in the room with people sharing some dark moments. The impact of that is hard to

Timeline of online journalism events

In 2008 I made a timeline of ‘key events in online journalism’ based on posts by Mindy Mcadams [http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/breaking-news-online-a-short-history-and-timeline/] , Paul Bradshaw [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/11/20/are-these-the-biggest-moments-in-journalism-blogging-history/] and a few [http://goa2003.onlinejournalismus.de/webwatch/10jahrechronik.php] others [http://reportr.net/2008/11/29/

Timeline of events that help define journalism in the digital age.

This is a timeline of events in the history of the web and the internet that have helped defined online journalism and the practice of journalism in general. The choice is mine, so you might think it’s a bit esoteric in places, if you think I’ve missed something

Interesting stuff I've seen in January

Stuff and such from the netwebs that caught my eye. * http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2013/01/24/tip-of-the-day-for-journalists-note-the-new-way-to-embed-a-tweet/ – Useful #Tip of the day for journalists: Note the new way to embed a tweet via @journalismnews * http://responsive.victorcoulon.fr/ – A very cool bookmarklet that lets you see what your

Potholes make for good content. No.Really!

I always make a point of looking over the local and free papers when I visit a place, it’s a nice snapshot of a place. So, visiting the out-laws in Plymouth over new year gave me a chance to catch up with The Herald [http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/

Youtube the cable company, longtail and the rise of JWplayer

I’ve played with video online for a long time (more hours of code bashing than I care to think of or could remember!) and I’ve tried every combination of video player/platform etc. in developing web provision at work. Just recently I’ve spent some time writing ‘widgets’

What instagram tells me about newspapers

Dear reader, I have an admission to make. I got caught up in all this talk of the end of days. I know, it was foolish but like many others, I gathered all my belongings, closed up shop and headed for higher ground. I ran from the** instagramocalypse.** Thenews that