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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 [...]

Wiki North East: opportunity to engage with our papers

Four North East regional papers have just launched a new Wiki project, Wiki North East.
Together the Evening Chronicle, The Journal, the Evening Gazette and The Sunday Sun have developed the collaboration: editorial articles, archives and user generated content for and about the people, places and events of the North East.
The idea was actually the [...]

Sunderland Echo: digital and hyperlocal

Journalism Lecturer Alex Lockwood spent an instructive couple of hours in the offices of the Sunderland Echo talking with their digital editor about sport, hyperlocality and what goes on inside Blu Bambu…
It was an excellent opportunity to get inside a changing newsroom, with pressures of integration, industry sales and, even, writing copy. The paper is [...]