multimedia

Stephen Glover is still away, so I'm still writing his column for The Independent. Irony of intense ironies it is called 'Media Studies.' This week, having overcome the shock, I take a look at Media Secretary Jeremy Hunt's emerging plans for the future of local television. I could not resist including a reference to one of my favourite spoofs on TV news culture. If you have not seen Anchorman, the Legend of Ron Burgundy, I recommend it very highly. Ron is a fictional representative of that breed of local TV bunnies who are so thick they will read anything that appears on the autocue.  

I realise this is a little old now, but I’ve had a lot to do. Better late than never, as they say.
I went to the annual NCTJ student council meeting a few Fridays ago. For those that have been sleeping, it’s a forum for feedback.
You can read my round-up here. 

It sounded somewhat strange to me when I read that the LA Times were interested in an debate happening at the University of Kent. Then as the story began to unravel, it turned out that an ex-UKC student was now an editor at the LA Times and his next editorial piece was on the same subject as the debate - beauty pageants. He was hoping to get a transcript or a video of the event to show to readers.

In case any of our Centre for Journalism students were feeling doubtful about the amount of techie stuff that's been thrown at them so far (and there's plenty more to come), they might do well to take a look at this piece by one of France's most forward thinking journalists.

In the Centre for Journalism we are intensely proud of our commitment to convergent, multimedia journalism. Several of the academic staff can write with pens and crayons. However, we have noticed that our celebration of student successes during work placements has, so far, been dominated by work published in newspapers. We love print, but we also adore audio, video and online text and we would like to celebrate your online work as enthusiastically as we have the printed stuff. I know several of you have have had film, sound and text published on KM websites PLEASE post links in response to this message. We want to showcase your talents. Help us.

Interesting piece by Paul Boutin in Wired, the Web Magazine.  Apparently the future is multimedia.