How to secure young audiences and take established news brands into the future
Richard Beech, 30, has spent his career so far bending and breaking rules for some of the UK’s best and biggest digital startups
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Month: August 2019
Developing entrepreneurial journalists
How do you build an experimental mindset among young journalists? Digital media expert Dan Gillmor says they need the right tools and a culture that gives them the confidence to fail.
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Wayne Rooney and a gambling epidemic
Days before a Panorama investigation into gambling was broadcast, it was announced that former England football captain was to make a shock return to the British game in January with Skybet Championship side, Derby County.
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Two men go fishing
In a sort of televisual travelogue, comedians and long-time friends Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse (as themselves, it’s not fiction) travel the rivers (and sometimes the coasts) of the UK, fishing, chatting, eating and drinking.
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Stacey Dooley’s Panorama blunder. Lessons to be learned?
Stacey Dooley interviewing Stacey Dooley. I don’t know her, but I’d hazard a guess she’s not having a good week.
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US: mass shootings and deadly rhetoric?
As satirist John Oliver put it, though Tump cannot be blamed for the existence of white nationalism and anti-immigrant hysteria he has created an environment where those kinds of views can incubate and flourish
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How to beat aggressive government propaganda in the Boris Johnson age
The creator of public relations Edward Bernays has lessons for our polarised times.
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Should Journalism Schools teach TikTok – even if Newsrooms are on the fence?
Tik Tok is an app. Put it on your phone or tablet.
Users create looping videos of around 15–20 seconds in length (think of it as Vine’s big brother) and mostly set them to a library of music clips. The look-and-feel is that of slick young creators producing edited video content with a banging soundtrack.
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Poverty is everyone’s business
BBC 2’s new three part documentary series, Broke, is perfectly timed. Though in truth it would have been relevant and crucial at any time over the last ten years.
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