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write, edit, blog: June 2012

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Thursday, 14 June 2012. Brand journalism - what it is and how to do it. This is a preview of the 50th masterclass at Multimedia Journalism: A Practical Guide and it’s a little different to the preceding 49. It’s about something that some people deny is journalism at all. They say it’s just PR or marketing under another name. But what exactly is brand journalism? You can read a definition of brand journalism in this module. Here I want to say why I’m doing this. Why cover brand journalism? It seems to me ...

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write, edit, blog: If you REALLY want to be a journalist - you need the answers to these 10 questions

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Thursday, 29 August 2013. If you REALLY want to be a journalist - you need the answers to these 10 questions. Usually on the Multimedia Journalism site we concentrate on how to do journalism. How to be a better reporter, video editor, podcaster or whatever. This time I want to look at something different. Something that comes before all of the 'how to do it'. It's the 'do you really want to do it? It's about the state of journalism today. So I'm posing and answering 10 key questions. This doesn't mean yo...

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write, edit, blog: May 2012

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Friday, 4 May 2012. Three reasons why you should want to report on religion: Introducing Masterclass 49 at MMJ. Here’s one good reason: religion throws up many great stories. And here's another: religion affects a great many people, even if they have no faith of their own. According to Judith Mitchell Buddenbaum, author of Reporting News About Religion: An Introduction for Journalists. The Religion Writers' Foundation. Says: “Religion is a factor in the issues Americans consistently name as their t...

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write, edit, blog: Escaping the Catch 22 every wannabe journalist faces: how to get your journalism published - even though you have no track record

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Wednesday, 24 July 2013. Escaping the Catch 22 every wannabe journalist faces: how to get your journalism published - even though you have no track record. Here’s is the Catch 22 every wannabe journalist faces. You need bylines on published articles before potential employers will take you seriously. But it’s virtually impossible to get the commissions that will win you bylines unless you already have a track record of published articles. How do you square the circle? We'll take a look at:. Enter your em...

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Andy Bull Book Reviews: September 2008

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Andy Bull Book Reviews. Reviews thhat have appeared in The Tablet. Wednesday, 10 September 2008. A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz. You wouldn’t want a father like Marty Dean. If there is a blackout during a thunder storm he will hold a candle under his chin to show his young son Jasper “how the human face becomes a mask of evil with the right kind of lighting.”. The bedtime stories he tells are “dark and creepy tales, and each had a protagonist that was clearly a surrogate me.”. Terry turns serial ...

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Andy Bull Book Reviews: Nicole Krauss: Great House, Penguin Viking, £16.99

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Andy Bull Book Reviews. Reviews thhat have appeared in The Tablet. Wednesday, 15 June 2011. Nicole Krauss: Great House, Penguin Viking, £16.99. George Weisz does magic: he retrieves the past for those robbed of it. This forensic furniture dealer tracks down the plundered desks, bureaus, chairs and beds their dispossessed owners long for: “all that furnished the lives they lost or the lives they dreamed of living…”. He has been doing so: “as if by putting all the pieces back together he might collap...

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Andy Bull Book Reviews: Derby Day: DJ Taylor, Chatto and Windus, £17.99

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Andy Bull Book Reviews. Reviews thhat have appeared in The Tablet. Wednesday, 10 August 2011. Derby Day: DJ Taylor, Chatto and Windus, £17.99. The mists of Lincolnshire haunt the flat fields and lowering sky, and seep into local myth and legend. Out of this fog which, we are told, lurks like a dense white halo over the low-lying land, there is said to gallop a winged steed: coal-black, with flaming eyes. Marriage to her is said to be worth £50,000. But it’s not enough. And nor is the r...Having got the g...

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Andy Bull Book Reviews: April 2008

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Andy Bull Book Reviews. Reviews thhat have appeared in The Tablet. Friday, 11 April 2008. A Vengeful Longing by R N Morris. There is a killer on the loose in. Its name is cholera, and its accomplices are poverty, slothful bureaucracy and a sanitation system so inadequate that the city is left to stew in its own waste. The city stinks: nowhere more so than in the office of investigating magistrate Porfiry Petrovich overlooking the excrement-filled. 8221; as he seeks the perpetrator of a series of murders ...

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Andy Bull Book Reviews: March 2009

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Andy Bull Book Reviews. Reviews thhat have appeared in The Tablet. Sunday, 8 March 2009. No Time To Think. No Time to Think: The menace of media speed and the 24-hour news cycle. By Howard Rosenberg and Charles S Feldman (Continuum $24.95). If the Cuban Missile Crisis. Were to erupt today, would the world survive? It’s a question that goes to the heart of No Time to Think, and particularly to what its authors describe in their subtitle as the “menace” of modern media. Ted Sorensen, special counsel and in...

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Andy Bull Book Reviews: October 2007

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Andy Bull Book Reviews. Reviews thhat have appeared in The Tablet. Saturday, 6 October 2007. The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe. Rosamond is dead. Imogen is missing. Those who remain have been entrusted with delivering a message, recorded on four C90 cassette tapes, from the dead woman to the beloved granddaughter of Beatrix, her childhood friend. When all efforts to find Imogen fail, the family listen to the tapes, and experience what Jonathan Coe describes as:. As with all the pictures Rosamond d...