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Media Law: The Verdict
The sun has been out in Salford (or at least it was until this weekend) and so I have been on my pushbike making the most of the good weather and my improved health after McNae-gate finished. A word for the wise, don’t try and answer your mobile while riding a bike through Salford, especially [...]
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Tags: acne, Apprentice, bike, editing, exams, filming, law, media, NCTJ, resits, results, sentence, spots, tummy, video, Yasmina
Media Law: the Jury’s Out
On Thursday I sat two Media Law resits in the space of 5 hours. I was the only person to resit both and my company were few. This said – I already know I am not the shiniest gavel in the box. Anyway, all sat down ready to go and the examinor, marker, course tutor [...]
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Tags: court, fail, gavel, general, legal, media law, naomi campbell, NCTJ, pass, reporting, resits, So Solid Crew
Media Law: The Trial 2
Currently having a pre-lunchtime snack of a cereal bar and a little pot of tea for one. With blazing sunshine on this glorious Bank Holiday Monday watching the ducks swimming in one of those puddles that just won’t dry up, what could be more pleasant? Indeed, I’d be in an Englishman’s paradise if it weren’t [...]
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Tags: exams, fail, law, media, NCTJ, resits, revision, symptoms, technique
Media Law: the trial
McNae-gate is drawing ever closer with just 6 days left on the clock. I endured my last (touch wood) ever shorthand exam unless I decide I want to push the boat out and go for 120wpm which I really don’t see happening. I can write Teeline shorthand perfectly well as long as there isn’t a [...]
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The Best Laid Plans
Its all coming crashing down about my ears – as things often do when I am left to plan my own life. My best laid plans have aft gone astra’ in the past and the have once again. With no hope of a job, a mountain of coursework to climb and a a fairly leaky [...]
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The Death-Knock Debate
Irony is a double paged feature in the newspaper that wouldn’t give you a job. Satisfaction is where that feature is pretty well intact and unabridged – unfettered by the the busy keyboards of sub-editors. Bemusement is when that double page feature in all its typographical glory is supported by an utterly irrelevant picture. Student [...]
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Tags: article, child, death, death knock, debate, ethics, family, grief, hack, ironic, journalist, Manchester evening News, mourning, picture mock-up, Police, Student Direct
The Price of Journalism
I have just paid for my last installment of rent and my exam re-sits. The total cost was over £700 for both of them. I reckon I have paid about £6,000 in total for my journalism studies including tuition fees, exams, materials, travel and rent. If I added alcohol expenditure to that list then you [...]
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Tags: Channel M, internet, Journalism, Kate Adie, manchester, media, money, print, radio, recession, redundancies, redundant, sack, television
Evening News gone wild west.
I am on my work experience week at the Manchester Evening News this week. Its easy to get to as its int he same place I did my TV work experience a few weeks ago. I was originally down to do a week of features at the MEN but that got cancelled and I managed [...]
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Tags: court, Journalism, manchester, MEN, redundancy, reporter, spotting, wild west
Oh boy, the week before last saw me document my week at Channel M, now last week is the reason as to why I have been so heinously negligent of my dear Blog. In other news, before I begin, my webcam has arrived but because of the crap student accommodation I currently call home [...]
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