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Talk About Local ’13
#tal13 unawards in the sunshine on the MIMA terrace. https://t.co/nfGvOPgViv — Richard Jones (@rlwjones) September 28, 2013 With it being the start of teaching, it’s taken me more than week to get...
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Lecture: Introduction To Media Law
As part of my teaching commitments in my new job at the University of Huddersfield, I’m giving the media law lectures during the first year Journalism Principles and Practice module. The first one was...
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Media Law Lecture: Crime and Courts
I delivered my second media law lecture to the first years at the University of Huddersfield today. It was on crime and courts, including Contempt of Court and looking at issues including the naming of...
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The Facebook Beheading Videos Row
The university’s View from the North blog. As the controversy about beheading videos on Facebook restarted this week, I wrote a post about it on the University of Huddersfield’s View from the North...
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Al Jazeera Listening Post On Media Ombudsmen
Listening Post, the media programme on Al Jazeera English, did a report on the role of media ombudsmen and readers’ editors earlier this month. And I feature briefly giving my views on the topic...
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Media Law Lecture: Defamation
My third media law lecture to the first year students at the University of Huddersfield was today. It was all about defamation, with a special section reflecting on the various strands of the Lord...
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Using Buzzfeed In The Classroom
The BuzzFeed Community dashboard. We’ve had a group of A-level students from Sheffield College at the University of Huddersfield today, having a Focus Day in the Journalism and Media department....
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Lecture: Introduction To Journalism And The Internet
I had one hour today to introduce a lecture hall of nearly 200 first year students from various courses to how the internet has affected journalism. Admittedly, it was just an introduction, but even so...
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Lecture: Social Media And PR
I’m teaching some first year classes on public relations this semester, and as part of the course I gave a lecture last week on the role of social media in PR. I decided to make the retail battle for...
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Lecture: Copyright Law
I delivered my latest media law lecture to the journalism and media first years at the University of Huddersfield this morning. It was on copyright law, with a particular focus on the law as it applies...
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Lecture: Privacy Law and Freedom of Information
Here’s my latest media law lecture, delivered to the first years at the University of Huddersfield today. It’s on privacy law, including the emerging case law from Max Mosley and others, breach of...
View ArticleStorify: BBC Sport Online v Newspaper Websites
I spotted an interesting discussion on Twitter, which has stretched over several days since last week. It’s about the scope of BBC Sport’s online activities, and its impact on newspaper websites. The...
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What I’m Reading: Books About Sport On TV
The best, and admittedly only, book I’ve ever read about snooker. Three of the books I’ve read lately are about sport’s relationship with the media, and in particular TV. All very good, the best of...
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Using Instagram Video In The Classroom
The new Instafax service from BBC News. I was in Leeds yesterday, leading a practical session for some BTEC media and journalism students at the City College. I thought I’d give them an insight into...
View ArticleNews Rewired: February 2014
I was at Journalism.co.uk’s latest News Rewired conference in London last Thursday. As is often the case at these events, I learned a new word. This time it was ‘dronalism’ which I heard casually...
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Embed Getty Images In Your Blog For Free
Scanning the Getty Images archive, and sticking an appropriate image into Photoshop for a quick bit of tinkering before publication, is as much a part of the online journalist’s toolkit as calling the...
View ArticleLecture: Law Refresher And Recent Cases
I gave another media law lecture to the first year journalism students at the University of Huddersfield this week. After giving a series of five last term, this was billed as a refresher. But instead...
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Lecture: Mistakes, Hoaxes And What Journalists Can Learn
Mmm. Nearly. It was April Fools’ Day on Tuesday, and I gave a lecture to all the first years doing journalism courses at the University of Huddersfield. Appropriately enough it was about hoaxes, or at...
View ArticleWhat I’m Reading: Nick Bilton’s Hatching Twitter, The Rolling Stones At...
just setting up my twttr — Jack Dorsey (@jack) March 21, 2006 It’s just over seven years since Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet, and I’ve just finished reading the most notable book...
View ArticleUsing Findery In The Classroom
I was at Bury College today to lead a practical session with some of their Year 1 BTEC media students. The group is coming to the University of Huddersfield next week for a Taster Day and sessions on...
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