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Monday, 9 December 2013

My Guardian Videos

While I was with the Guardian Multimedia team, I helped with a number of videos for the website. And here they are. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2013/nov/28/playstation-4-review-xbox-one-comparison-video I helped the team to produce this video. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2013/dec/03/gran-turismo-6-launch-ronda-spain-video I edited together this agency news video http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/dec/04/thailan-protesters-urge-police-curb-violence-video Another agency video that I edited together. Sport Here...

Thursday, 1 August 2013

StantonPace Articles

I am currently on a six-week internship with StantonPace, producing content for Caravan Times and Motorbike Times. You can keep up with all of my stories and features here. Week One http://www.motorbiketimes.com/news/sport/motogp/marc-marquez-extends-motogp-lead-with-victory-at-laguna-seca-$21382499.htm http://www.caravantimes.co.uk/news/towcars/mini-cowley-caravan-shows-that-good-things-come-in-small-packages-$21382945.htm http://www.motorbiketimes.com/news/makes/yamaha/yamaha-reveals-new-lightweight-d-elight-commuter-scooter-$21382505.htm http://www.motorbiketimes.com/news/sport/world-superbikes/bmw-motorrad-pulls-out-of-world-superbikes-for-2014-$21382515.htm http://www.motorbiketimes.com/news/sport/motogp/rossi-believes-marquez-can-become-the-greatest-rider-in-motogp-$21382516.htm http://www.caravantimes.co.uk/news/gadgets/caravanners-warned-about-holiday-tv-licence-laws-$21382959.htm http://www.motorbiketimes.com/news/sport/motogp/crutchlow-calm-about-2014-motogp-with-five-contract-offers-to-consider-$21382519.htm http://www.caravantimes.co.uk/sites/parks/south-west/stowford-farm-meadows-$21382966.htm Week...

Thursday, 4 July 2013

Daniel Mackrell - Published Work

Your Local Guardian  http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/sport/10501391.Robson_takes_time_out_to_send_a_message_to_schoolchildren/ http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/sport/football/hamptonandrichmond/hamptonandrichmondnews/10499297.Brewer_finds_the_love_for_the_Beveree_once_again/?ref=rss PCProhttp://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/376705/windows-7-tops-xp-for-first-time  http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/376804/twitter-angers-developers-with-more-changes  Computer...

Monday, 24 June 2013

Wimbledon and Wandsworth Guardian - Work Experience

The experience was a great learning experience in the world of journalism. My main experience of local reporting is through my reporting at university and a day I spent documenting the Basingstoke Gazette. So this was my first time getting hands on with a real local newspaper. Firstly I was surprised at the size of the team. Although the office was quite big, both the...

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Will Vine revolutionise Video Marketing? [Guest Post - Silverbean]

This article was written on behalf of Silverbean. Since January of this year, there’s a new app available on Android that’s been taking the market by storm. The Twitter Vine video sharing app works in a similar way to the popular social network but in a different medium. Whereas Twitter limits you to 140 characters of text, Vine instead gives you the ability to create a video of up to six seconds in length and share them with other Vine users, as well as users of both Twitter and Facebook. Users can then share videos, look up trending content...

Monday, 3 June 2013

Showreel

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Friday, 24 May 2013

Andy Green - Breaking the Sound Barrier

You can view the article on the Winol magazine Adventure and Travel here - http://www.winol.co.uk/winoladventure/2013/05/andy-green-breaking-the-sound-barrier/ Andy Green beside the Bloodhound SSCPicture Credit - Stefan MarjoramImages provided by Curventa and Siemens' Written by Daniel Mackrell At the 2012 Olympics, the world watched on as some of the fastest...

Monday, 6 May 2013

Basingstoke Gazette - A Day in the Life of News

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Eric Birbeck - Confessional Interview

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Barry Collins - PCPro Editor Interview

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Thursday, 28 February 2013

My Journalism Work

All of my videos and written content for Winchester News Online can be seen via this page - http://danielmackrell.blogspot.co.uk/p/videos.html  The rest of my published written work can be found on these links- Computer Activehttp://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news/2200013/german-privacy-chief-reopens-facebook-facetagging-probe http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news/2200432/people-prefer-to-buy-new-pcs-rather-than-upgrade-says-crucial http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news/2201963/confusedcom-releases-free-app-that-coul...

Thursday, 17 January 2013

Privacy injunction for Kate Winslet family

Today, the Guardian wrote this piece about a privacy injunction made by Kate Winslet and her husband, after The Sun were planning to publish pictures of Edward RocknRoll (her husband) partly naked, but Mr Justice Briggs made the injunction. The reasoning for preventing them being published was to protect the couple's children from being teased at school. The Sun had informed them of the intention to publish the photo's(but didn't reveal the source). he full judgement can be seen here. In it he refers to Articles 8 and 10. Looking...

Thursday, 3 January 2013

Covering Elections

Covering elections is an example of journalists carrying out a public duty, or public service. Reporting elections help inform people about information on the parties running, their manifestos and other information. During an election, while these are important for a journalist at any time, it is particularly important to have fairness, impartiality and accuracy, particularly for broadcasts. Broadcasters have special rules regarding elections and political bias, whilst newspapers can be less balanced. 'Keep an eye on the clock' - this...