Exciting news! The University of Bolton, together with Beijing Foreign Studies University are offering two 50% REDUCED TUITION FEE SCHOLARSHIPS for the postgraduate degree; MA in International Multimedia Journalism for the 2017/18 academic year. Recipient’s tuition fees will be reduced by half meaning recipients will pay £3,250 instead of £7,500 for the single year degree […]
Berta Tilmantaitė wins a whole host of awards for her latest film
HIMALAYA is a fable, that we heard whispered in our ears while hiking through the mountains. “Himalaya” (हिमालय) literally means “abode of snow”. And this range actually is home to nine of the ten highest peaks on Earth, including the highest, Mount Everest, which is called Sagarmatha in Nepal and Chomolungma – The Goddess Mother […]
Victoria Kim’s Final MA Project Lands in Good Hands
Uzbek Koreans has finally landed in good hands. Victoria Kim’s final MA project is now part of the online multimedia library run on the website of the George Washington University’s Central Asia Program. Currently, you can see the link to the project at the Central Asia Program’s website under the section “Multimedia Projects”: www.centralasiaprogram.org
Olga Stefatou’s film on Le Monde Diplomatique
Olga Stefatou, IMMJ graduate 2012, has had her film “Bataille pour la place Agios-Panteleimonas, Athènes” published on Le Monde Diplomatique.
New iBook – Jiuzhai Valley Multimedia Guidebook
Students from the 2012-13 class have produced an iBook – available now on iTunes – offering a different take for tourists to the Jiuzhai Valley.
DJ Clark and David Campbell working for World Press Photo
Course leader Dr DJ Clark and lecturer Dr David Campbell have taken on new and important roles with World Press Photo in 2014. DJ Clark is the lead trainer on the World Press Photo Connected Learning project, which offers free online multimedia training and international workshops. David Campbell is the Secretary to the World Press Photo […]
World Press Photo Multimedia Research Project Report – 视觉叙事（中文翻译稿）
The report from the 2013 World Press Photo Multimedia Research Project – Visual Storytelling in the Age of Post-Industrial Journalism – is now available in Chinese translation: 视觉叙事（中文翻译稿）World_Press_Photo_Multimedia_Research_Project_Report_Chinese_translation Full details of the World Press Photo Multimedia Research Project are available here.
Berta Tilmantaitė’s National Geographic cover story
Berta Tilmantaitė’s story on the Winter Road in Russia has been widely published, including on the cover of the Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian NatGeo magazines. It also featured in the Geographical magazine (UK) and Rhythms Monthly in Taiwan. The cover picture is picture of a local boy named Spiridon, who is deaf. He spends a lot of time with […]
Adam Dean wins Press Photographer’s Year 2013 first prize
Adam Dean, MA graduate and course tutor, has been awarded 1st Prize in the News category of the Press Photographer’s Year 2013 for a shot of Aung San Suu Kyi. The image will be exhibited with other winners at the National Theatre in London from 6 July and was also awarded prizes in this year’s Pictures of […]
The power of the visual journalism community – Tracey Shelton gets crowdfunded kit
From newsshooter.com an incredible story of people helping former student and award-winning visual journalist Tracey Shelton: Tracey Shelton was in desperate need of replacing her aging camera equipment to continue to report from war-torn locations such as Aleppo. After reading the post, two Columbia J School grads, Mayeta Clark and Nick Stone, set up a crowd […]