By swarren on December 4, 2012
Bournemouth University hosted the New Media Writing Prize2012, now in its third year, with the winners announced during an entertaining awards ceremony. The overall winner of this year’s Prize was Katharine Norman for her piece ‘Window‘; an interactive work that involves the reader exploring and changing settings to view different elements of the story. This [...]
Posted in News | Tagged BA (Hons) English, Media, Media School, New Media, New Media Writing Prize, the media school
By Tania Willis on June 27, 2012
BU BA Multi-Media journalism graduate Harriet Rose-Gale, 21, won the Dorset Journalist of the year award. Utilising her work done as Deputy News Editor for student newspaper The Rock, Harriet’s winning entry was her report about the desperate measures cash strapped students are taking to afford university, including stripping and medical testing. Despite her [...]
Posted in Journalism, News, The Media School | Tagged Adam Lee-Potter, Dorset journalist of the year award, Harriet Rose-Gale, NUJ
By Peter Wallace on June 14, 2012
BU’s Professor of Public Relations and chairman of the PRCA Tom Watson told Speed Communications this week that the PR industry needs to value itself more before it can achieve professional recognition. Professor Watson stated that the profession is starting to distinguish itself through the CIPR moving its Continuous Professional Development programme online, but needs [...]
Posted in News, The Media School | Tagged Media, PR, Professor Tom Watson, Public Relations
By Tania Willis on June 13, 2012
Advertising students at Bournemouth University starred in their own advertising campaign after winning a pitch for Aquafresh, set by MediaCom on behalf of pharmaceutical company Glaxo Smith Kline. The winning team made up of final year students were Emily Ridgwell, Rose Pickard, Karis Brummitt and Anna Taylor. The students were set the challenge of [...]
Posted in News, The Media School | Tagged Advertising Marketing and Communications, Aquafresh, Glaxo Smith Kline, MediaCom
By Tania Willis on June 6, 2012
Victoria Musguin graduated from BA TV production in 2010 and amongst working for the likes of channel 4 and the BBC since graduation she has just received a prestigious Al Jazeera award for her final year project documentary A different face. A Different Face explores the life of Shaharzad Akbar, the first Afghan female [...]
Posted in News, The Media School | Tagged Al Jazeera award, Victoria Musguin
By Tania Willis on May 23, 2012
BU Interactive Media Production graduate Ben Templetons’ creative agency ThoughtDen have crafted a unique ‘Magic Tate Ball’ app for the Tate Modern. ‘Magic Tate Ball’ is a new location-based mobile app from the world renowned Tate gallery and Bristol based digital agency Thought Den. Taking inspiration from the iconic Magic 8 Ball, [...]
Posted in News, The Media School | Tagged ben templeton, interactive media production, magic tate ball, tate modern, thoughtden
By Tania Willis on April 5, 2012
The winning group of BA Hons advertising students successfully launched their Chatterbox event in Bournemouth square yesterday 4 April. Poppy Sargeaunt, Youth Disability Coordinator at the YMCA, said: “Today has gone really well, we have all the young chatterboxes who are all really keen about the event, they are all really eager to tell people [...]
Posted in News, The Media School | Tagged Bournemouth University, chatterbox
By Tania Willis on April 5, 2012
For the second year in the row a BA Hons Radio Production student, James Ewing has won the prestigious Charles Parker prize. The Charles Parker Prize was created in April 2004 by BU’s Centre for Broadcasting History Research group in memory of the world famous radio features producer who originally hailed from Bournemouth. It is [...]
Posted in News | Tagged BBC Radio 4, charles parker prize, James Ewing
By Tania Willis on March 27, 2012
A group of final year Bournemouth University BA Hons Advertising students have won £1,500 from the University for their project to promote Chatterbox. The local disability group publishes a magazine for young people living with a disability and the BU students had to come up with a strategy to help promote this. Poppy Sargeaunt, Youth [...]
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By Tania Willis on March 26, 2012
Two Bournemouth BA TV Graduates have won top awards at Screentest: The National Student Film Festival dedicated to the promotion of aspiring British talent at London South Bank University over the weekend of 23 and 25th March. BA Hons TV Production graduate James Trosh won best documentary for his entry titled Fighting Trump, telling the [...]
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