Jane Treays
Posted on January 25, 2007 - Filed Under Coventry Conversations | 1 Comment
‘Filming at the edge with those at the edge…’
Thursday February 1st at 1pm in the Ellen Terry Building at Coventry University, Room ETG34
Winner of this year’s Royal Television Society Award for Best Network Documentary for Extraordinay Families (2005). Jane Treays is one of the foremost documentary directors in British Television. Of her controversial film, […]
Nick Jones
Posted on January 24, 2007 - Filed Under Coventry Conversations, Journalism | Leave a Comment
“Web of Fabricated Stories Unpsun”
Former journalist now turned newspaper propaganda expert Nick Jones spoke to students last Thursday regarding media ‘spin’. Aformer political correspondent for the BBC on party conferences, Nick Jones retired in 2002 after 30 years in the profession. The author of well known books such as ‘Sultans of Spin’, ’The […]
Trevor Phillips
Posted on January 15, 2007 - Filed Under Coventry Conversations | Leave a Comment
“Morality and the Media…”
Thursday 1st February at 6pm in the Coventry Cathedral
Trevor Phillips, the outgoing Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality has never accepted conventional wisdom on race or anything else. His warning that ‘multi-culturalism was dead’ and that Britain might be ’sleepwalking towards segregation’ prefaced the tragic events of 7 July 2005 and […]
Your Community Needs You!
Posted on January 13, 2007 - Filed Under Media | Leave a Comment
Citizen 1000 is an exciting new project from BBC Coventry & Warwickshire. The award winning radio station aims to recruit a thousand volunteer citizen journalists in a year. Citizen 1000 is an exiting new project from BBC Coventry & Warwickshire. What matters to you has always been at the heart of what we do and […]
Read More..>>Astral Gypsy
Posted on January 6, 2007 - Filed Under Video | 1 Comment
This is a short documentary on graphic artist Al Davison, who suffers from spina bifida.
Made by second year students studying Media Production at Coventry University.
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Illustrator Al Davidson explains why he’s nicknamed ‘Astral Gypsy’ and how Spina Bifida has left him wheelchair-bound, although as this well-crafted film reveals, he is anything but disabled. […]
