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Towards a new journalism

By Paul on May 30th, 2008

 
Jim Latham is secretary of the Broadcast Journalism Training Council. He’s also a collaborator on the Meld Pathfinder project. Just before the last event Jim sent the following piece - embargoed then as it was to appear in UK Press Gazette. Here’s the full unedited version of Jim’sthoughts on future journalism.
Seems like I’ve spent the […]

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Views of Meld2 - Day one

May 21st, 2008

Snapshots of day one of the Meld Pathfinder event

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Meld Island launched in 2nd Life

May 19th, 2008

The meld team are delighted that it’ll be Howard Rheingold who does Uclan’s first 2nd life session from the newly commissioned Meld Island. ‘Dreddpiratebob’ led the Island design work from his real life space at Preston College

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Howard Rheingold takes the ‘Meld Stage’ in 2nd Life

May 12th, 2008

Writer, critic and leading thinker on cultural, social and political significance of contemporary media and communications, Howard Rheingold will take the newly commissioned Meld stage in second life to address delegates at the latest Meld event

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Stephen Marshal at Meld

May 12th, 2008

Stephen is going to join us for our next Meld event discussing the skills needed for the journalist of the future. Paul met Stephen Marshal, Creative Director of Guerilla News Network in Brussels recently to chat about the GNN and more.

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Meld Pathfinder

April 28th, 2008

In collaboration with sandbox and key media professionals Meld is delighted to be running its latest project aimed at developing training programmes for the journalists of the future.

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Meld at DNA 2008

April 24th, 2008

Meld is delighted to be on the bill at the prestigious Digital News Affairs 2008 conference in Brussels in march. DNA 2008 is a major international conference featuring more than 50 top speakers from the editorial, marketing and business teams from the world’s most innovative media companies

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Mark Payton at Meld

December 15th, 2007

Mark Payton from Haymarket Media on the Digital challenge. From the Meld workshop at Sandbox

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The Dragons view

December 15th, 2007

Our industry dragons for Meld1, Mark Payton, Chris Green and Simon Bucks tell us why they got involved.

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The Digital challenge

December 15th, 2007

Simon Bucks from Sky News talks about the challenges for broadcast and, with his Chair of the Society of editors hat on, the challenges for the wider industry

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Mark Payton at Meld

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About Meld

Meld was born out of a need to find creative solutions to the issues facing contemporary media companies and those who create content for them whether they’re journalists, producers, animators, film-makers designers or technologists.

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The Meld Lab

The original MELD Lab was a Department of Journalism and Sandbox project. It was supported by the Northern Edge and the Northern Way. It was part of Melds innovative approach to collaboration designed to find out what happens when teams of journalists, creative technologists/ interaction designers conceive and develop projects together. Teams were invited to pitch seed ideas in response to industry briefs.

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