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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

We media has no we.

The Press gazette [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/110506/citizen_journalism__its_still_a_case_of_them_and_us] has a pretty damning piece on the We media conference at the Beeb a week or so ago. According to Martin Stabe , there wasnt much ‘we’ in evidence which is

FT embargo content

Courtesy of Yahoo News – The FT have announced a 24 embargo on content to 3rd party suppliers [http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060515/nym229.html?.v=31] meaning that if you don’t get it direct from the FT you wait a day. > The extended embargo is part of

Associated Blogosphere?

In contrast to Ed Wassermans article I mentioned yesterday [http://digidickinson.net/2006/05/16/associated-blogosphere/], here is one from Jason Lee Miller at webpronews [http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060515SeedsOfAnAssociatedBlogosphere.html] that suggests a more symbiotic relationship between bloggers and journalists based on his reflection of the recent

Is ‘convergence’ the next media disaster?

In an interesting article [http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/14581081.htm], Knight professor of journalism ethics Edward Wasserman sounds a little bit like he’s trying to catch the horse after missing the open stable door. I don’t really agree that it’s the involvement of

Big media blogs: know your place.

A nice post by Kevin Anderson on the Corante [http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/04/] web site about fostering community turns out to be more about getting buy in from the old media rather than takeover: > [But] the last few weeks have only reinforced my fundamental view that

Tagging- a tool for journalistic transparency

Here’s an interesting article on tagging as a transparency tool [http://www.lavanguardia.es/public/series/20060417/51244437619.html]. Transparency is a hot topic at the moment. I’m convinced it’s as much a tool for protecting the ownership and so financial interests of news organisations as it

China’s new regulations to curb media

An interesting article from Reuters about China’s increasing attempts at media regulation [http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-04-17T074819Z_01_KNE727501_RTRUKOC_0_UK-CHINA-MEDIA.xml] , reveals a worrying imapact on online resources > …news Web sites collectively agreed to censor themselves to eradicate

Final Salute wins awards

Final Salute – an special report from Denvers Rocky Mountain News has won several awards; rightly so. I showed the multimedia part to my students a while back as they got started on their own multimedia projects. I have rarely heard a class so quiet when it finished. I'm

Keyword headlines

> Journalists, they say, would be wise to do a little keyword research to determine the two or three most-searched words that relate to their subject–and then include them in the first few sentences. “That’s not something they teach in journalism schools,” said Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch,

Text to voice podcasts - as crap as you think they would be?

Jemima over at dotjournalism has a great comment about the rise of text-to-speech podcasts: > So yes – an inevitable innovation, but not one that does anything at all for the medium of podcasting. This technology must be ergonomic, rather than built around the convenience of the producer. It will only