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    MA Online Journalism: Multimedia Journalism Breadth Portfolio

    As part of my MA Online Journalism studies I recently produced a series of projects in Multimedia Journalism (which appear on this site). Here is the Critical Analysis for those projects.

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    iPhone Apps: news

    Continuing in my series of posts about my favourite apps, I move onto … NEWS I currently run 2 RSS readers on my phone. I struggled to find one that could accommodate forwarding to 2 different Twitter accounts. iNEWS PREMIUM (£2.39) (Itunes link) I am...

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    iPhone Apps: search

    After jumping into the iPhone apps world with both feet, I thought I’d run through my favourites. Watch our for more posts in this series. SEARCH/RESEARCH Google (free) (Itunes link) Image via CrunchBase I am a big fan of the Google app. Not only can...

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    Another flash project …

    As I gather my portfolio together for my MA Online Journalism Multimedia module, I discovered my first ever Flash project. Sad story, a British student missing in America, where he was studying. I decided to take the facts of the story and turn it into...

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    UK Festival headliners map

    An interactive Flash map, showing the headline bands for this summers UK festivals

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    Audio slideshow – music news bulletin

    It was only a matter of time before I harked back to my old job of knocking out music news bulletins for the rock loving masses! Instead of a straight bulletin read though, I decided to turn a standard bulletin (recorded into my laptop with...

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    Ian Huntley coverage (news and Twitter)

    Following the news that Soham killer Ian Huntley was attacked in prison over the weekend, I decided to have a look at the reaction this story was getting online. First, a quick look at how the story was handled in 2 very different newspapers. Using...

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    Producing a video report entirely on an Iphone

    Ok, for my next trick (ok, uni project) I am going to look into filming and editing a video report all on my iPhone. My plan is to record some stuff “to camera” (Ie me speaking and setting up the story), a clip of an...

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    Looks like I’m not into metal any more Toto

    Data can be an interesting and eye opening thing. I decided to cut and paste some sections of my ITunes library into Google Docs and create a data set from Artist Track, Genre and Plays. sort tracks by PLAY COUNT remove TIME, BITRATE, DATE ADDED...

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    Glastonbury data mashup

    As part of my MA Online Journalism I have been playing around with some data from the Glastonbury festival archives. I wanted to show the statistical history of the festival, through a visual media.

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