The Daily “Diana”/ Express

“The Daily Express is more advanced than any other newspaper inasmuch as it constructs an alternative universe – sometimes agreeable, sometimes frightening – which it pretends is real,” says Stephen Glover in The Independent.
He’s referring to their news that house prices are going up – contrary to other newspapers, “most of which take the view that [...]

Facebook slump

Facebook is loosing members. Today’s news refers to a five percent decline in users between December last year and January.
This was to be expected. Everything loses appeal much quicker on the web. I predict Facebook will have fewer users this time next year.
This is good for newspapers. Although it’s early days, the Facebook slump shows the changeable nature of the web. In comparison, [...]

Student generated content

The Lancashire Evening Post have created a video blog for the student content it receives. There is certainly enough enthusiasm within UCLan’s journalism students to fill it. And strengthening the ties between the Uuniversity and the local press is positive for both parties. It’ll be interesting to see how it develops.

To video or not to video?

Andy Dickinson has made these parodies of newspapers’ video productions. They sum up exactly what I have experienced at different papers.  
I think that print hacks will never have the time to produce something that is high quality. The MEN website can do it well, with videos like this,  because they have Channel M, a seperate operation. 
Perhaps newspapers should consider employing a trained [...]

Chinese New Year

I’ve made a slideshow of the Chinese New Year celebrations in Preston. 

Kai Li-ving on a jet plane

The National Student have jazzed up the Essay Scam story.

Blogging Give it a G0 – a mean feat!

I have lovely feet. That’s according to Pluto’s Deputy Features Editor Emily Davies who is blogging Give It a Go week at the University of Central Lancashire’s Students’ Union.  
Our paths – or rather feet – crossed at a reflexology session on Tuesday. It was one of the activities on the Give it a Go program. For a nominal fee you [...]

New kid on the blog

Just found Dave Lee’s blog. According to Roy Greenslade he’s “probably Britain’s leading student journalist blogger.”  
There’s plenty of useful observations about student media on there, including this advice to journalism students.
He’s also getting paid to blog for Press Gazette in their student journalism blog.  Hmmmm, wonder how much money I can make.

Acting video from a newspaper

The LEP have published this video I helped to make on work placement. It’s different to what one would expect from a newspaper.