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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.

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A quick way to test web content on your mac

If you’re getting into this whole coding journalist and tinkering with HTML and javascript you’ll eventually get to the point where you need a webserver to play with. Webservers, amongst other things contain the software that enables you to play with more complex scripting, handling ‘requests’ for content

Who takes the risk in changing journalism?

I’m spending the next few days in a research symposium about journalism. Lots of great people with interesting things to say about the changing face and challenges for journalism. I’m not going to go into too much detail about what’s being discussed -that’s partly because a

What do journalists use instagram for?

Tell me, I’ll forget Show me, I’ll remember Involve me, I’ll understand I’m not one for sharing proverbs or pithy statements; ones that would look great on a poster with some Kittens or shared in a cursive font on Facebook. But the lines above popped into

Finding and mapping the center of your world(ish)

This is the center of Preston. I made that discovery as I pondered a post I saw a little while ago. The article came from The Londonist, who ran an experiment to find the center or London [http://londonist.com/2014/04/where-is-the-centre-of-london-an-update.php]. It was a repeat of an

The center of everything!

Here’s an interesting puzzle. Where is the heart of Greater Manchester? It turns out it’s a little patch of land just off Blue Moon Street – near Manchester City’s ground. Not one to please the Reds! Or that the heart of Newcastle is 5 Dugdale Road. Well they

Restarting news: Will Journalism have much say in what journalism becomes?

Prof George Brock has an interesting post as a prelude to his talk at the international journalism festival in Perugia which is well worth a read. He ponders an incomplete list of things that might shape what comes next in journalism. [http://georgebrock.net/incomplete-list-things-going-shape-next-journalism/] There are a couple that

5 steps to turn you into a journalism coder (maybe)

I’ve been thinking alot about coding. Staring at some code for an hour and then realising that it’s not working because you spelt slider wrong will do that! So it was nice to see a piece on the Guardian website, Head of Cardiff J-school Richard Sambrook has been

Archive mashup pics with extra interactivity

Update: Google maps streetview now has a history option [http://google-latlong.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/go-back-in-time-with-street-view.html] which might offer some useful sources (not too historic though) Update 2: And people are doing great stuff with video [http://londonist.com/2014/04/new-video-beautifully-blends-old-and-new-london.php] . Over the last few weeks

Who broke Moyes? Breaking news in a multi-channel world

So Moyes has gone. But does, as some have claimed, this mark another first for twitter? Like him, loathe sport, I think the whole thing offers an interesting case study to ponder for journalists of all genres