Tag Archives: Journalism
May 15, 2012 Please ensure that you write at least 200 words per box.
I remain connected to my Teesside classmates through Facebook and Twitter. It’s fun to see the relationships between them growing; strangers becoming buddies, flirts becoming fucks – all that dirty romance. I’m selling my untouched textbooks on Amazon; stubborn, arrogant and poor to the last. I was part of all that, and it was a good [...]
Tags: Journalism, Middlesbrough, Multimedia, Review, Students, Teesside
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February 11, 2012 Exclusive: Cleveland Police ill-prepared for apocalypse
I don’t want to alarm anyone living in Middlesbrough any more than they already will be – having woken up and, rubbing the sleep from their eyes, remembered that they live in Middlesbrough – but far from ‘Putting People First’, Cleveland Police doesn’t have your back; in fact it would appear that they are perfectly content [...]
Tags: cleveland police, december 21st 2012, End-times, freedom of information act, freedom of information request, Journalism, mayan prophecy, Middlesbrough
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February 8, 2012 Me, talking
These next two tracks were exercises both in writing for broadcast and recording. I can only hope that the subjects were made up, but even so, pieces of a baby found flushed down a toilet? Really? I didn’t realise Bret Easton Ellis was writing NCTJ exams. I think these examples of my effete lisp are [...]
Tags: Journalism, Middlesbrough, Multimedia, Radio
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January 23, 2012 Several Hundred Words About Money
In Britain, welfare amounts to over 30% of overall public spending. If we ignore the bail outs – and we should, because £1.2 trillion could have built schools on the moon – then that’s the single largest area of public expenditure; a provision to guarantee a basic standard of living for all those in financial [...]
Tags: Britain, Journalism, Money, Politics
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January 17, 2012 A play without words and some thoughts on attractiveness
Yesterday we were loaned expensive recording devices and instructed to tell a story without words. This involved questionable bathroom conduct and some multitrack fun with Adobe Audition. And today I was asking people around campus what they found attractive in members of the same sex.
Tags: Britain, Journalism, Multimedia, Nudity, Students, Vox Pop
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December 11, 2011 Three years of cuts and closures…
As I mentioned already, I intended on working my weird rant against non-recyclers into the last real work of the year – the vox pop assignment. However, the apathy of others and the growing realisation that I am just another hypocrite – three paychecks and some half decent head in a fast car away from turning [...]
Tags: Britain, Journalism, Middlesbrough, Politics, Vox Pop
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December 3, 2011 Lingerie, Whiskey and Burning Flags
Hey, am I wearing lipstick? When I’m getting fucked I want to make sure my face looks pretty. – George Jung, Blow I put the news in my brain today. It didn’t help my depression. Not one bit. I hear the cuts with which we are being punished for the avarice and incompetence of our betters [...]
Tags: Alcohol, Britain, End-times, Journalism, Leveson, Middlesbrough, Nudity, Phone hacking, Politics, Press, Scotland
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December 1, 2011 Our Rock is an Alcoholic and We are Happy-Hour. Part Three
Question Time. BBC One, 10.35 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 Against a more newsworthy day’s backdrop of the biggest strikes in 30 years and my own Senior Lecturer – a former journalist at the News of the World – being arrested in connection with the Leveson phonehacking enquiry (later bailed until March), I have a deadline. I [...]
Tags: Alcohol, Britain, Denmark, End-times, Journalism, Leveson, Middlesbrough, Phone hacking, Politics, Press, Robots, Students, TV
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November 23, 2011 The Press: Articulating our Rage or Skullfucking our Souls?
Another devil’s advocate exercise; this one weighing the pros and cons of a free press. Mark Lewis, speaking at today’s Leveson inquiry had far more intelligent, insightful things to say on the matter. This kind of writing is good fun but can also be quite confusing; I often need to take a step back to reaffirm my beliefs [...]
Tags: Journalism, Leveson, Phone hacking, Politics, Press
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January 26, 2012 International Students at Teesside University
Middlesbrough’s Teesside University has a student body of nearly 30,000. Of that number, more than 1,500 are international students. The ones we tend to notice are female but there is hushed talk of males. Sam Howitt and I wondered what on earth possesed them to study here, of all places, but realised quickly that such [...]
Tags: Britain, Journalism, Middlesbrough, Students, Video, Vox Pop