Next month will see Media City host it’s first ‘Bar Camp’ – an informal conference with discussions, demos and activities all organised by the attendees. BarCampMediaCityUK will take place at BBC North on the 17th and 18th September, and is the brainchild of Ian Forrester, Senior Producer at BBC R&D. We caught up with Ian […]
WHSmith will set up shop within the open centre at MediaCityUK’s new studio facility – answering the hugely important question of where BBC staff will be able to get a copy of Heat. The 1,000 sq ft. unit will open in 2011 selling all manner of typical Smith’s goodies, and joins supermarket chain Booths as […]
This is a guest post from journalism student Rose Brooke. If you cast your eyes away from the cash, celebrity and pomposity of Fleet Street for a moment, there is another hotbed of media activity brewing in the North. The reason I chose to train to be a journalist in Manchester rather than London in […]