Podium.Me Training Day – Friday 25th April 2014

After the success of the last Podium.Me Training Day in November 2013, I was thrilled to be invited down to Thomson Reuters at Canary Wharf in London for another chance to meet the ever-growing Podium.Me team and to get more industry insights from some top guest speakers.

It is an exciting time for the podcasting site which gives a crucial platform for the under-20s to get their voices heard. The journalistic endeavour has been nominated for ‘Best Creative Innovation’ at The Radio Academy Awards 2014.

MSN displays ‘graphic’ screenshot on home page – when publishing explicit content in the media, is there a line and where is it drawn?

NOTE: This ‘News Digest’ post analyses the way in which the story is reported on, not the story itself. The screen-grab of the graphic image MSN used is included to illustrate what I question in the blog.

Last night on the right-hand side of the MSN UK home page an image caught my attention. The website, after a certain time of day, has an area titled ‘tonight’s must-see videos’. The main promoted video was titled ‘Beckham fans injured in stampede’, with no warning of graphic content, despite an image of a blooded-faced woman prominently being displayed. As soon as I read the title and saw the image, my thought process went something like this:

BBC Get In Day at BBC Scotland Glasgow Pacific Quay

After a manic midday rush on Friday 1^st February 2013 to get free tickets for the BBC ‘Get In’ day at Glasgow Pacific Quay, I secured a place with two course mates to the event which was held a week ago today on Wednesday 13^th February. Ticket availability plummeted from 140 to 80 within 10 seconds so we all felt very fortunate to ‘Get In’, if you’ll pardon the pun. After signing in and collecting our ‘hopefully we can keep these at the end’ badges we were introduced to the key speakers and panel, namely Talent Executive Simon Wright (@Spimon), Trainee Scheme Coordinator Don Kong (@Don_b_Kong, and @BBCTrainees controller) and JTS Administrator Ruth Akins (@bbcjts controller) who all spoke alongside current trainees Mog McIntyre (mogstermc), Coral Condeco (@CoralCondeco), Liz Rawlings (@lizrawlings) and Fran Kilgour.

Uni exchange blog 9: “It’s not the end. It’s the end of the beginning.”

Well. That’s it then. 16 weeks. Gone. It has always been said that time flies when you’re having fun but it really is hard to believe that my university exchange is over. I’m not sure where to go with this ninth blog. What do you want to know? I could launch into a waffle about the best and worst aspects of exchange, or break things down like I have done in past updates. I’ll do the latter. One key thing I hope you take from this though is that if you ever get a chance to do an exchange, do it. I can’t reiterate this enough, but I will repeat it again further on no doubt.