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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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

Mapping street level crime in an area

A little while ago I was playing around with the API at data.police.uk looking at a way to pull the data into a google...

Andy Dickinson 18 October 2016 maps

How open is open data journalism?

Simon Rogers published a post last week that asked “What does data journalism look like in 2016?”. For Rogers, the winners of the data journalism awards“...

Andy Dickinson 22 June 2016 data journalism, open data

The Panama Papers & trickle down journalism

I’ve been reading a lot about the Panama Papers. As a ‘thing’, the Panama Paper’s is an amazing project. It’s pretty much written...

Andy Dickinson 11 April 2016 data journalism

MOJO on Android?

I’m spending some time with Android doing audio and video. I know, why would I do that when there’s the iPhone? You get strong...

Andy Dickinson 30 March 2016 video, Mojo

Journalism Ethics in a digital world: In an nutshell

For the last six years or so I’ve done a guest lecture on a colleague’s Journalism Ethics module around the title ethics in a...

Andy Dickinson 09 March 2016 Jounalism, Ethics

Ernest Hemingway on Adblocking

Whilst doing my daily read around of various things, I found myself at Forbes’ website. I was greeted by the usual pithy ‘quote of the day’...

Andy Dickinson 20 January 2016