When I read ‘MediaCity’ on the itinerary, I did not expect it to be such a literal description of my birthday setting. A jam-packed bus sang Happy Birthday to me and rode us from Liverpool into Manchester for the day and a night’s stay. We walked into a complex of buildings that included part of […]
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Day Four: UK Hearst
Hearst UK is a leading media company that publishes 19 magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Elle, and Good Housekeeping. Their office space was definitely the most awe-inspiring out of our media visits thus far, with offices and “ideation areas” throughout multiple floors of an office building, and an off-site building that contained a test kitchen and testing […]
Day Two: Regent University
Jason MacKenzie treated us to a lecture about the current landscape of media in the UK at Regent University this morning and discussed some really interesting topics. He talked about platforms becoming more like publishers of their own news content and journalists seemingly working to produce content and not so much news stories due to […]