Archive for December, 2008
MAC373 Essay
You can collect your marked MAC373 essay from Room 218 from 11-1 or 3-3.30 tomorrow Friday. After that, go to the LRC>
Interview with new digital magazine, ecoforyou
Shaun Milne, founding Director of digital publishing company Planet Ink, shares his decisions and ambitions for new online-only magazine ecoforyou.
Why did you go for a turn-page magazine format?
There were a number of good reasons, not least it is a fairly straightforward skill to learn. We purchase the technology on license so we don’t need [...]
Good news for students – spend more time on Facebook!
The Sunderland Echo’s digital editor Lee Hall told journalism and PR students today they should be spending MORE time on Facebook for the good of their media careers (though try telling that to your irate tutor . .)
Lee came along to Sunderland University to talk about how newspapers are making their web presences felt and [...]
Question to students: do you run a blog/site?
Do you run your own blog? And if you do, would you be willing to be highlighted in our next ’six of the best’ entry on independent student websites?
Yesterday I posted on a range of great student portfolio sites from across the web. At the same time, I also saw an application for position of [...]
UNESCO world press freedom competition: £500
The 2009 UN World Press Freedom Day Student Journalism Competition has been announced, and you lot from the University of Sunderland Journalism and PR department are encouraged to enter. The joint organisers of the Day in the UK – the UK National Commission for UNESCO and the Press Freedom Network – are inviting entries on [...]
Echo boss outlines digital future
The digital director for the Sunderland Echo, Lee Hall, will give a guest lecture in the cinema at 12-1pm this Wednesday (Dec 10). Lee will be talking about how journalism and PR are adapting to the online world, and what works well on the web. He’ll be stressing that online and video skills are something [...]
Six of the best… student portfolio sites
For the web session I am running later today for Level 3 and MA students, I thought it useful to share with everyone the different examples of student portfolio sites that we’ll be looking at.
It can go without saying (because it has already been said, by Martin Stabe, Mindy McAdams and the Iconoclast, amongst others) [...]
The joy of Christmas lists…
Last week MAC373 Media Ethics looked at the influence of PR on news output, this week we grappled with freebies and reviewing. Interesting then to read Alice Wignall in today’s Guardian,
Last Christmas, they gave you their guides …… but the very next day, you threw them away. Papers and magazines are filled with present ideas, [...]
Collective Magazine looking for writers, photographers
One of the North East’s top magazines, Collective, is looking for contributors to enter its hallowed fashion and entertainments pages. They’re currently running features on London Fashion week, health, beauty, arts and parties.
You can contact Editor Karen Bell at their offices in Wylam Wharf, High Street East, Sunderland or call them on 0191 5143598. For [...]
Style over substance?
Nick Martin justified the use of graphics and picture effects on news stories to give them impact. One student said some of them looked “cheap and unprofessional”. The Guardian’s TV writer Mark Lawson is firmly on the side of the student, as you can see in his article here. What do you think?
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