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Acid Tapes

ARfm – Colin Noble Unsigned Show 7th July 2017

Check out the July 7th, 2017 edition of the show.

ARfm – Colin Noble Unsigned Show 23rd December 2016

Check out the December 23rd, 2016 edition of the show.

ARfm – Colin Noble Unsigned Show 14th October 2016

Check out the October 14th, 2016 edition of the show.

- Google is your friend: One message Google stressed upon at our workshop today was that utilising their media platform can only help with getting your work read by the biggest and best audience possible. (Their offices are incredible as well!)

- Tools for every journalist: Stephen Rosenthal showed us how to use the different tools on Google to our advantage and showed us some of the newest Google technology. My favourite has got to be Fusion Tables, which allows you to join together Google maps with data to create an interactive story for your readers.

- Don’t believe everything you see: An interesting point raised by Brendan O’Neil, Editor of Spiked, is that you can’t always trust eye witness accounts. Often journalists are washed over by emotion or don’t see the full picture during a conflict or disaster; meaning their accounts of the event may not be the most reliable.

- Social media can be good and bad: As well as not always trusting eye witness accounts, Brendan spoke about how we, as journalists, must always be sceptical when using Twitter and other social media as a source for news. Often during conflicts and breaking news stories people let their emotions cloud their judgement, often leading to misinformation and false photos being shared across Twitter. A current example of this is the #GazaUnderAttack on Twitter, which the BBC found to show numerous photos of other war zones being passed off as pictures of Gaza. (www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28198163)