Andy Dickinson

Manchester Andy is a Senior lecturer in Journalism at Manchester Metropolitan University where he is the program lead for the MA Multimedia Journalism.

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Beep. Boop. That’s the sound of my commute

How an impulse buy and a bit of playing around with Python led to an ‘almost’ musical experience of my daily commute....

Andy Dickinson 20 April 2018 Experiments, code, visulisation

The GIANT CAP approach to coding for journalists.

There are lots of approaches to coding and software development. Methodologies like Agile, Scrum and Lean are even becoming the norm in newsrooms. But I have a suggestion for a quick and easy methodology for journalist’s getting to grips with coding...

Andy Dickinson 13 April 2018 coding, data journalism

Grounding journalism education

This is a version of a Keynote speech I gave at the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia conference #JERAA17 in December 2017...

Andy Dickinson 09 December 2017 Presentations, academic

Two fundamentals that define good data journalism

Defining data journalism is a hostage to fortune but as I start teaching a data journalism module I’ve boiled it down to two things visible methodology and data....

Andy Dickinson 03 October 2017 data journalism

Is Data Journalism any more open?

What does the shortlist of the open data category of the Data journalism awards tell us about data journalism’s approach to open data....

Andy Dickinson 10 July 2017 data journalism, open data

Local votes for hyperlocal #DDJ

There’s a good deal of interest in my feeds in a BBC report showing how local voting figures shed new light on EU referendum....

Andy Dickinson 06 February 2017 data journalism, local

The BBC, Local democracy, hyperlocal and journalism.

I spent the afternoon in Birmingham at the BBC finding out more about their Local Democracy Reporters scheme. It’s a project I’ve been keeping...

Andy Dickinson 09 January 2017 hyperlocal, BBC

Making Instagram video with Powerpoint

Audio slideshows are something I’ve included in my practical teaching for a little while. The combination of images and well recorded audio is, for me, a compelling form of content and it can be an easy video win for non-broadcast shops....

Andy Dickinson 09 December 2016 video, slideshows

Mapping Drone near misses in Google Earth*

My colleague Andrew Heaton from the Civic Drone Centre set me off on a little adventure with mapping tools when he showed me a spreadsheet of...

Andy Dickinson 23 November 2016 Experiments, maps, drones

Don’t postmortem journalism. It’s not dead. Fix it.

In the aftermath of the Trump win many in the media are looking inward to understand what went wrong. But is it too soon to write...

Andy Dickinson 09 November 2016 journalism

Why social media isn't blogging.

I’m teaching first year journalism students at the moment and talking to them about a professional online presence. A phrase that I’ve been using...

Andy Dickinson 20 October 2016 blogging