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Being smarter with your smartphone
All this week, Digital Bristol, alongside the BBC, are providing a series of workshops and events to showcase the best and cutting edge technology currently in use, or that will be soon. The BBC are capitalising on this in order
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Using visual journalism to ‘keep up with the big boys’
There is a vast and growing number of tools which allow journalists to tell stories in more engaging and entertaining ways. Visual journalism needn’t be something new and frightening, it should be seen as the future of telling a story
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Top apps for wannabe hacks
As the need to produce multi-media copy becomes more and more essential to the work of journalists, an online market for useful apps and services is quickly expanding. Up and coming hacks are stepping into a world where it is
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Why every journalist should learn design
You know what was actually a really useful bit of my masters? Learning the basics of InDesign. I moaned at first – ‘I’m never going to be a designer or a sub!’ – but, actually, that’s the point. I totally
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Why I can’t tweet (unless it is about football)
So, a while back I weighed the options of creating a work-based Twitter account. I struggled deciding between creating one based on work vs. adding work content to my personal one. All in all I decided against combining my personal
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Why campus reporters should ‘Like’ the Facebook ticker
We’re going Facebook crazy at the moment. Yesterday The Entreprenuer argued journalists were a bit late to get to grips with how to use Facebook. This morning The Postgrad said that Facebook could be more useful than Twitter and now
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It’s time for journalists to take Facebook seriously
Yesterday The Entrepreneur argued that journalists are late to the Facebook party. True, but I’d argue that that’s precisely why it’s now such a powerful potential tool. Facebook has grown into a network of unprecedented size – 845 million active
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The Hacks at news:rewired
This Friday, the Wannabe Hacks are heading to Journalism.co.uk’s news:rewired event, Media in Motion. We’ll be live blogging the sessions, tweeting, storifying, and also posting more traditional coverage over the course of the day. We’ll be doing this all over at
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When a liveblog isn’t the answer: experiments in online journalism
Yesterday the Guardian started liveblogging its own newsdesk. While some applauded this latest move toward an open newsroom, others said it was navel-gazing meta news gone mad. For me, a liveblog was just the wrong medium. I, a certified wannabe
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So I’ve got an iPad… Now what do I do with it?
My beautiful iPad arrived for my 23rd birthday (thanks Mum and Dad!) and I love it. I haven’t been so excited about a new toy since I got my Animal Hospital pet ambulance aged six. But now what do I
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