Global News Relay 2026: AI is now out!
The show, focused on the theme of AI features the work of students from four universities: The University of Alabama, USA, Alliance University, India, Coventry University UK and hosted by the Masters of Journalism students at Leeds Trinity University.
Continue readingAll you need to get started is a phone, a mic and a tripod.
Before you begin, make sure you go into airplane mode so your recording doesn’t get disturbed, clean your lens and if you don’t have a tripod to hand, take a steady grip of your phone with the four finger technique.
To all those involved in teaching video journalism, or those just interested, I’ve just launched something new to help journalism students learn some video journalism tips. After not being able to find something that works for my teaching style, I’ve roped in my colleague @lindsayeastwood and @leedstrinity student @thearobinson and launched a Youtube channel where you can find all the videos as Youtube shorts. You can also follow on TikTok Instagram and X. This year will be my 20th year teaching journalism – 18th at Leeds Trinity, where we’ve just been named the number one journalism school in the UK in the 2025 Guardian Uni Guide. Over those years I’ve repeated the same lessons over and over – who to interview, what to film for b-roll, where to use a tripod, when to film sequences, how to use a mic, and why all of it matters for mobile journalism. So I’ve broken things down into bitesize teaching units that I hope will be of interest to students. Please do subscribe, follow, like and share.
Over the past few years I’ve involved my students in global collaborative TV journalism projects with countries around the world. Most recently, we hosted “And the Good News Is…” a Global Campus Studios Production with 8 universities in 7 countries across 16 time zones. In this film, you can find out why I continue to involve my students in such projects. (Hint: it’s because the students get so much out of them).
When Hong Kong’s Covid lockdown tightened its grip earlier this year, Hong Kong Baptist University faced a crisis: how could they produce a global television programme, linking to eight universities across 13 time zones and five countries; all whilst social distancing.
By Katherine Blair
Britain’s exit from Europe has also meant leaving the Erasmus programme, a scheme set up to provide opportunities for students to study or do work experience in another European country whilst completing their university degree.
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When Unity Enterprise in Chapeltown in Leeds contacted me about the possibility of our Leeds Trinity journalism students producing a series of edited interviews to capture the voices of the Windrush generation and their descendants, I jumped at the opportunity.
The films are to be part of an exhibition to celebrate Windrush Day on June 22.
The day was established in 2018 as a way of redressing the wrongs done to people of Caribbean descent – some of whom were wrongly deported because they were never given the correct paperwork to document their arrival in the UK.
Indeed they had been invited to help rebuild Britain following the second world war.
Continue readingLeeds Trinity second year journalism students are part of this year’s Global News Relay – How Covid Changed Us. This year’s programme airs April 26 on Facebook and Youtube and is being hosted by students at Hong Kong Baptist University.
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