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Critical Diary 2 - Media, Technology and Society
In Week 7, we explored compulsion and how media consumption may be increasing in an unhealthy way. Kruger suggests that social media...
Jun 6, 20248 min read
AUT Worldwide Cultural Festival returns for a second year
Auckland University of Technology (AUT) held their Worldwide Cultural Festival last week, with the event returning for its second year....
May 28, 20242 min read
Week 11 - Reflective Vlog
A short reflection on producing my final news stories for the semester. Transcript Previously in my degree, my articles have been longer...
May 24, 20241 min read
Week 10 - Weaponisation of context
In a video for the New York Times, Wardle argues that AI and deepfakes are part of a 'much older phenomenon... the weaponisation of...
May 17, 20241 min read
Auckland Art Gallery celebrates Guo Pei exhibition with Chinese poetry
Auckland Art Gallery hosted 'On Being Chinese - The Poetry' to celebrate the final day of Guo Pei's exhibition on Sunday. The event...
May 9, 20242 min read
Week 9 - PR and 'Churnalism'
This week’s reading highlighted that ‘news is now a shared, co-produced, recycled and republished commodity’ (Johnston and Rowney, 2018),...
May 7, 20241 min read
Week 8 - Transmedia journalism
This week’s reading explored what makes a story ‘transmedia’, as opposed to multimedia. One of the defining features is audience...
May 3, 20241 min read
Week 7 - Writing for broadcast
This week we looked at how writing for broadcast differs from writing for the page. A key consideration is that copy must be written to...
Apr 12, 20241 min read
Critical Diary 1 - Media, Technology and Society
Our brief in Week Two was to create a new media device which fulfils a need in modern Aotearoa, whilst incorporating the latest advances...
Apr 10, 20245 min read
Week 5 - Midpoint Reflection
In this piece, I use the process of writing News Story Two as a means of reflecting on the semester to date, drawing parallels with the...
Apr 10, 20243 min read
'Don't shake with blood-stained hands': Protests over Myanmar military visit to New Zealand
Protesters gathering on Aotea Square in Auckland this afternoon as part of the ‘Keep Out the Butchers of Myanmar’ campaign. Photo:...
Apr 6, 20241 min read
‘Future-proofing our city’: Auckland to trial self-driving electric vehicles
Self-driving electric vehicles are set to join Auckland’s public transport fleet next month in a new ‘EcoRyd’ scheme. Residents in...
Mar 21, 20242 min read
Week 4 - Direct and Delayed Leads
This week we looked at how to structure new stories through methods such as the inverted pyramid model (Hannis, 2018) which was familiar....
Mar 19, 20241 min read
Week 3 - Interviewing and Power
This week focused on the importance of preparation for interviews, otherwise the ‘talent’ may take the opportunity to give a rehearsed...
Mar 19, 20241 min read
Week 2 - A Māori Perspective on Journalism
One of this week’s readings focused on the Māori perspective in journalism and the process of bi-cultural reporting. ‘Tikanga [Māori...
Mar 19, 20241 min read
Week 1 Reflective Blog - Inclusivity in Journalism
One of the initial readings, Inclusive Journalism (Ross, 2014), introduces the idea that ‘the health and survival of your news...
Mar 8, 20241 min read
Plugged-In
A short video about our relationship with technology: The first task in our Media, Technology, and Society module was to create a short...
Mar 6, 20241 min read
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