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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

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 for the last week. In the

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-and-innovation-must-die/] ) , chunks of multimedia are going to

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 connection, plus another

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,

Video Workload Survey results

So, the responses to my second little survey about video have slowed enough for me to put out some results. I tried to expand on some of the areas from the first survey that had caused debate, in particular points raised by the Newspaper video Yahoo group. So here are

Video Workload Survey results

Update The results of part 2 of this survey are now up. Results are still trickling in but I thought I would publish a few results from my little video survey. Some broad results: * The average length for video is between 2 -3 minutes * The average production time is between