Kelsey Braun

Day Five: Windsor Castle

I left a small piece of my heart in London and the class departed for Windsor.  The town is small and regal-looking, the type of aesthetic one would expect from a quaint little town in England.  Picturesque, with cobblestone roads and beautiful scenery.  It had a much different vibe than London did. Windsor Castle, the […]

Kelsey Braun

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 […]

Kelsey Braun

Day Three: Battenhall and BCW.

This day, we visited two prominent media companies in London – Battenhall and Burson, Cohn, and Wolfe. Battenhall is a newer venture at only 6 years old, but has already won 10 Agency of the Year awards for their innovative work.  They are a communications agency for the social media age.  They consider social media […]

Kelsey Braun

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 […]

Kelsey Braun

Day One: Paid to be Here and Paid to Pee Here.

Our plane touched down at Heathrow London Airport, the second busiest airport in the world; no where near as busy as Pittsburgh International Airport, which I saw for the first time. Straight off of the plane, we loaded onto a tour bus, and it was weird to be on the “wrong” side of the road […]

Taylor Lippke

Intro Post: Taylor Lippke

    My name is Taylor Lippke, and I am a photography major here at Point Park. I am currently in my Junior year and enjoy traveling. I have traveled to many places over the United States. However, I have only been outside of the country twice to go to Canada. Traveling over seas has […]