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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

Is more than 100 likes on Facebook news?

Occasionally we get emails asking if we can forward ‘writing opportunities’ to our journalism students. This week it was for student news site The Tab [http://blog.tab.co.uk/]. For those looking to take up the opportunity, there’s a handy guide for those asking the question ‘what is

Why can't I tag my followers in Tweetdeck?

I was chatting to a @clarecook [https://twitter.com/cecook] this morning – office mate and all round planet brain – and we got onto the subject of how we use Twitter to find people. Clare noted that often she will follow people based on a conference or event that she saw

When is data journalism not data journalism?

When it’s data driven journalism…. I’m doing lit-review at the moment (this might sound academic but it essentially consists of me yellow-highlighter-penning-the-feck out of papers and journal articles) and I came across a little loop in defining data journalism that got me thinking,

Elephants and MOWSUC's - questioning the future of media

When I think about where media is going, I think about elephants. For the longest time digital was the elephant in the room. Now media, and journalism in particular, accept the elephant is there. So we don’t ask ‘why can’t we do what we’ve always done?’ (a:

Exploring the x,y,z of storytelling...

Warning: Thinking in process here. Sense may come later! I spent some time last week talking to students about mapping. Practically we were looking at Google maps and storymap.js. [http://storymap.knightlab.com/] But I spent a bit of time reinforcing how location is increasingly valuable in storytelling – especially

Refelcting on the #ODISummit

Over the last two days I’ve been in London getting my head around the Open Data community at the Open Data institute’ [http://opendatainstitute.org/]s second Open Data Summit [http://summit.theodi.org/].(#odisummit [https://twitter.com/hashtag/odisummit]) I’m involved in an InnovateUK/Nesta funded project

Ebola Zombie image hoax: A useful reminder of the value of reverse image search

Update: This is an insanely popular post on my blog in terms of people searching for ebola zombie. Even if the picture wasn’t the thing that made you search for Ebola Zombie, I think I can say with some certainty that any report you’ve read of ebola zombies

An updated timeline of journalism in a digital age.

Early last year I updated my timeline of journalism events in a digital age [http://digidickinson.net/2013/02/20/timeline-of-online-journalism-events/] and I thought it was time to take a look and see what needed to be added. So I’ve updated it including the following:

Am I responsible for a shitty freelance market?

Yesterday I posted about using Medium as a platform for my second year students [http://digidickinson.net/2014/08/26/the-right-medium-for-student-work/]. In passing I mentioned that Contributoria [http://www.contributoria.com] also looked like a good bet. That led to a brief exchange with Sarah