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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

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

Ivory tower dispatch: Free online video editing

This week, amongst other things, I’m pondering video. I tried to write about some of the more contextual thinking around video in a earlier post, [http://www.andydickinson.net/2012/10/11/the-ivory-tower-dispatch-defining-multimedia-journalism/] but it’s the practical side that’s been upfront

The Ivory tower dispatch: defining multimedia journalism

This week in the ivory tower I’ve mostly been looking at multimedia. I’ve been building on the idea that, regardless of the approach you take (the fast/slow journalism split I created last week [http://www.andydickinson.net/2012/10/02/ivory-tower-dispatch-fast-and-slow-journalism-

Creating audio slideshows using slideshare (and more)

I’ve just been putting together a workshop which fits around some discussion about audio journalism and audio slideshows in particular (more about that in the Ivory tower dispatch later this week). In trying to put something practical together you soon get to see the limitation of the form within

The commercial blindspot:Funding news

The idea of the weekend – a £2 levy on broadband that can be used to pay for journalism [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/23/broadband-levy-save-newspapers]. > There are almost 20m UK households that are paying upwards of £15 a month for a good broadband

Students don't read newspapers shock!

Given that this is a post about newspapers I suppose that could have been “students slammed for not reading” or “students blast quality of newspapers”. Still, news reaches me that Students aren’t reading newspapers. According to Australian research: 90 per cent of students do not like reading the newspaper,