October 2011
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BU’s Trevor Hearing in Guardian Q&A
BU’s film and television leader Trevor Hearing not only featured on the Guardian’s Film Industry, but made the edited advice after section. Trevor gave the advice to anyone who is thinking about becoming a producer: “I think you have to narrow down what sort of producer you want to be. Television or film? Drama? Entertainment? [...]
BAPR Professer gives tips on triumphing in times of hardship
Professor Tom Watson has written for PR moment.com sharing his top PR business tips that will help cut costs, and the risk of collapse, in the tough economic times. Dr Watson is well versed in running his own PR consultancy business, as he worked for 18 years running his own and was PRCA chairman from [...]
BU and the Creative Enterprise Bureau visit Media Pro
The Creative Enterprise Bureau (CEB) at BU will join over sixty major brands to share advice on integrated communications at this year’s Media Pro Expo The Media Pro event held in Olympia, London on November 1-2, will include an exhibition and conference programme detailing how to deliver effective integrated communications across digital, social and print [...]
Dr Roman Gerodimos blogs for the Independent
Bu’s Dr Roman Gerodimos blogged for the Independent today with a post entitled: ‘The day that will define Greece’s future’ Roman starts by stating that the biggest success of contemporary Greece has been the establishment of a stable parliamentary democracy since the collapse of the military junta in 1974, but the combination of an unfeasibly [...]
Guardian reviews Sean Streets’ programme
Elisabeth Mahooney gave Sean Streets Sound Of Fear programme delightful reviews last night, praising its currency and Sean’s ‘becalming voice’. The programme compared how simple sounds in the day time were ineffective to feelings, for example footsteps, but if heard during the middle of the night became terrifying. The review highlighted interesting points made by [...]
Sean Street documentary on Radio 4 tonight
Sean Street, who used to be Director of Bournemouth’s Centre for Broadcasting History Research, has produced a radio programme called The Sound of Fear, which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 tonight at 9pm produced by Julian May. The programme investigates the psychology of fear, and its relationship to sound. Sean speaks to musicians, [...]
Politics Online: Democratising or Distracting?
There is a longstanding academic debate about whether the internet influences the sphere of politics, and whether political dialogue exchanged online actually has an impact in the real world. Do these discussions actually escape ‘cyber ghettoes’ and can the internet facilitate democracy or does it simply provide political ‘infotainment’ to the subjective consumer? The Media [...]
Director for Excellence in Media Practice, Jon Wardle, appears on BBC Politics Show
Director of The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth University, Jonathan Wardle, featured on the South regional segment of this week’s ‘Politics Show’ yesterday on BBC One. Jon was in the studio to discuss future employment prospects for the students in the UK, following the shocking revelations that unemployment is at its highest amongst [...]
BU’s Dr Carrie Hodges keynote speaker at the Public Relations Practitioner Association of Puerto Rico
Storytelling is usually associated with constructing a journalistic narrative, but how important is the meaning and value of storytelling in PR? Bournemouth University’s Dr Carrie Hodges and Dr Lee Edwards from the University of Leeds were invited to be keynote speakers last week on the topic of The Meaning and Value of Storytelling in Public Relations [...]
CIPR awards two fellowships to McKenna Townsend PR
Graduates from the UK’s longest established PR degree, BA Hons PR at Bournemouth University, have just been announced as Fellows of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. The CIPR are the largest body of its type in Europe for the professional for PR practitioners in the UK, implementing a code of conduct, representing its members [...]
