What is Community Reporting?

by scipmark on 16/06/2010

This video includes interviews with four people who came to the Brighton & Hove Community Reporters Monthly Meetup in April 2010. They are Jo Wadsworth, Paula Snyder, Ron Sharrat and Paul Jackson and they give you a great idea of what community reporting is all about.

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Top Tips for Video Journalists

by scipmark on 23/08/2010

The BBC College of Journalism has some great free resources that are relevant to Community Reporters. Here are a couple that will help you get the most from your video stories. The first leads you step-by-step through the process of how a BBC video journalist tells a story about a shoe-shining Bishop, whilst the second is a series of top tips for anyone who uses the sort of low cost video cameras we use for our Community Reporter training.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/journalism/skills/production/video-journalism/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/journalism/blog/2010/06/pocket-sized-video-journalism.shtml

There are lots and lots of relevant links once you get there so it’s worth setting aside 30 minutes or so to pick up come top tips from the pros.

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What do you think of Moulsecoomb?

August 17, 2010

The Ice cream man A group of community reporters based in Moulsecoomb set out to gather local opinions about this area of Brighton and Hove.

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Where there’s a will there’s a way: my report on News:Rewired – the nouveau niche.

July 20, 2010
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On 25 June 2010, together with Caroline Sutton, I attended news:rewired – the nouveau niche at Microsoft HQ, London as a representative of the Brighton and Hove Community Reporters project. We witnessed the convergence of some of the most influential and prolific minds in journalism and communication. More than 100 media professionals attended the event [...]

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May Monthly meet-up

June 8, 2010

By  John Scott  The Quaker Meeting House played host to the Community Reporter volunteer journalists. Divided into two halves, the evening included demonstration talk by Frank LeDuc about Brighton and Hove News Using a video-projector displaying the ‘newspaper’ front page he explained how he set up the  web pages as an experiment when he was unemployed.   He discussed [...]

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A little bit of brevity goes a long way

May 25, 2010

Journalist Paul Bradshaw has written a very useful summary of how to write for the web, starting with the need to keep things brief. He suggests that anyone writing online needs to get used to creating short chunks of text, rather than long sections, and using one paragraph for each idea. He also thinks that [...]

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Can online journalists empower communities?

May 17, 2010

Paul Bradshaw has proposed three principles for journalists in the online age. It is a neat summary of the role of a journalist in the internet age and recognises how sharing stories between communities can empower people: To verify & contextualise what’s online; To digitise what’s not online & make it findable; To empower communities [...]

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Community reporter training is off to a great start

May 17, 2010

Caroline Sutton launched the first Brighton & Hove Community Reporters training course on Saturday 8th May at Coldean Library. Ten eager students from a wide range of backgrounds will be studying at the library for six weeks. Here’s an interview with Caroline about how it went.

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Community Reporter training courses

May 4, 2010

Just to let everyone know both courses are now full.  The first one is due to start this  Saturday at Coldean Library at 9.30am. I’m looking forward to meeting everyone and hope the course will be fun and helpful. If you’ve not managed to get on a course this time, keep in touch or drop us [...]

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New work for journalists

April 30, 2010

The growth of social media is changing the way we communicate with each other. It’s not just changing how we keep in touch with friends but it’s reconfiguring the ways that we gather, assimilate and share the news, ideas and stories that matter in all parts of our lives. It is changing our personal interactions [...]

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