2023-08-15 14:39
The use of Generative AI in education seems alarmist, even dangerous, but is it? And what might you make of this glimpse of its future in Star Trek in the 1960s. Trekers knew this all a… Read More
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2023-08-15 14:30
AI Generated image of The ChairmanPrologue: An article underpinning specific and underdiscussed use of AI and new story styles particularly for specific audiences — by Dr David D… Read More
2023-08-09 22:17
Astory about a young police officer who travels to the UK in the 1950s from West Africa seeking a new life shows a future of AI evolving filmmaking. And it will particularly benefit communit… Read More
2023-08-09 22:15
Created using Gen AICreating media using AI will be a boon for creatives, particularly for marginalised, disadvantaged or people unable to meet modern production resources and costs.Currentl… Read More
2023-08-09 22:13
It’s a sprawling magnum of emotionally fuelled storytelling. Transcendental in its ambition, non linear and complementarity in its delivery.Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2… Read More
2023-07-04 14:23
They’re coming for you. Not the AI per se, but the CEOs driving AI. And to ensure you can still make a living you need to find your super power. That much I’ve told several write… Read More
2023-07-03 23:06
In less than a decade television news will be transformed. The screen you’re used to viewing on national networks will be transformed, not because executives sought to, but… Read More
2023-07-02 09:37
One of the main issues in education and society is the lack of teaching systems thinking.We’re programmed throughout our education to search for unitary or limited- view causes… Read More
2023-03-18 21:02
This is it, I thought clutching my tape recorder about to board a plane to a country that by all television and radio news’ accounts was gripped by a civil war. Soweto, the count… Read More
2023-03-18 20:55
TThere are multiple versions of you, living multiple lives. Each one of those defines you. Some are recognised, some not! They have to wait the turn. But sometimes you can’t wait.AKung… Read More
2023-01-11 21:18
Friends with organiser Prof Wlilson, a change makerThey appear to be similar, and are interchangeably used. Make a difference proposes a disequilibrium to the status quo. Change is ens… Read More
2023-01-04 15:35
I suspect 2023 is going to be strange year. Visibly, a number of things are being nakedly exposed, even atrophying before our very eyes. Things like politics and its governing system… Read More
2023-01-01 23:50
Ifit wasn’t so serious, you’d howl laughing. Many did. Never one to miss a situation that reflects communications practices, a chuckle here and there was quite the moment.A… Read More
2023-01-01 23:47
How does it hold your attention and how does it continue to hold your attention. There was a moment presenting at Apple Store in London, when there was a shift from the audience. A com… Read More
2023-01-01 23:43
Five stories connected: Syrian border, Chicago, Soweto, Spain and Norway. It looks like a scene from Minority Report. You view the story. AI in part generates its own narrative against… Read More
2022-12-10 22:30
47winners from Google News Initiative’s 2022 Innovation challenge will now be in their stride with funding up to €150,000 for their project. The official announcement is here… Read More
2022-12-10 22:24
News shapes our views of the world; Cinema does too, but also in a cultural shock way. Jaws left beaches deserted; Super Sized Me shifted eating habits; Lawren… Read More
2022-09-23 14:44
Photo David Dunkley Gyimah“H”ow can climate stories be improved?” was one message. “How can stories reach more people?”, was another. These were fundamental que… Read More
2022-05-19 14:57
The blueprints there, right there, I‘ll tell the audience. If you want to do innovation and diversity and how they bolster each other, the blue print is 1994.Back then 30 youngst… Read More
2022-05-19 14:52
Here, pick up this camera and go out and shoot.Shoot what?Anything, but no more than five minutes. Don’t spend too long.That’s all the instructions they were given. One by one th… Read More
2021-12-19 17:23
Photo SitbonzoThe ornate room, with royal blue painted oakwood doors I have just hurriedly entered, and sat down draws momentary attention from a dozen or so attendants. I nod. No one challe… Read More
2021-11-22 14:48
Bent over the kitchen sink washing dishes (the washing machine has packed up) my mind drifts. Curse shingles. I now have a renewed healthy respect for work-life balance. Just how does… Read More
2021-11-17 18:25
Dr. David Dunkley Gyimah 10 min readWhen journalists decided journalism alone wasn’t enough, it was time build physical solutions, then story them.“Congratulations, fu… Read More
2021-05-23 15:34
In the 1970s the unthinkable happened. A thriving industry by which the public was informed about the latest news and current affairs was largely proclaimed dead. New media technology… Read More
2021-05-20 15:34
First person shooter games on the Academy’s campus. To the left a
£4m Challenger Tank and on both sides lay an assortment of military
hardware.Tucked away in the leafy S… Read More
2021-05-20 12:44
It’s 7.40 pm and one of the most powerful editors in the UK is standing over me. He’s looking at me squarely and says something that’s ringing in my ears in slow motion as… Read More
2021-03-06 19:02
“The stories have really brought worldly conflicts to the table and have shown the disparities of diverse human views”, 22-year old Steffi from the Phillipines told the Gua… Read More
2020-12-27 14:38
Wefaced a crisis in cracking teaching online. Two-hour straight lectures were not going to work, particularly staring straight down the tube. But first a flashback. Two main probl… Read More
2020-12-27 14:16
You know you see what they want you to see. The terrorism in New Zealand; 50 dead, and the manner in which some newspapers and broadcasters reported the event reached a deeply depressi… Read More
2020-06-29 17:00
It’s being called the Fifth Age of Broadcasting. Beyond Newspapers producing TV, some like The Times newspaper, this week, launching a radio station, there's more fertile ground, which… Read More
2020-01-25 22:52
He’s tipped to be Ghana’s next sporting boxing megastar, and embodies the characteristics with which Ghana is being described via boxing metaphors. Sporting allegories befit some… Read More
2019-10-13 12:54
O
ana couldn’t believe her misfortune whilst setting up in one of the world’s hot zones, Ukraine’s Maidan Square. It’s quiet now. Five months earlier it was under si… Read More
2019-10-08 00:09
When asked about his talent, his awards, his performances, he stopped looked the interviewer in the eye and simply said: “I just wanna work, man!”
Society sets a series of de fa… Read More
2019-09-28 19:25
David Tyoember, a besuited Chemistry undergrad, stands outside London Tube stations with a placard looking for a job. It's not the first time it's been done, but it still takes gumption. Rob… Read More
2019-06-15 19:42
I wanted to become a journalist, but instead I'm more a futurologist. My PhD looks at cognitive practices of storytelling. My experience inspires my writings, from conflict zones in ap… Read More
2019-05-06 11:59
Photo Award winning photojournalist, Yannis Kontos - for more of his amazing photos go here
Twenty five years ago, a generation or so ago, we watched, some chewed their nails, others cradl… Read More
2019-04-27 15:15
In the end, the executives would have a change of heart not because their better selves could see the moral bankruptcy of their decision, but somehow they were made to feel like lesser men… Read More
2019-04-01 20:43
When they ran the tests, for a moment time stood still. Did it work? The data was a series of dark dashes of varying shades — a sort of morse code internalised, fixed withi… Read More
2019-02-16 21:15
The frenzy during its launch both excited and terrified the media. A bunch of twenty somethings were about to be unleashed and they possessed something of the dark arts of television.
They… Read More
2018-08-16 00:38
It absolutely blew them away. As the man who would be President of the United States of America made his way through a throng of people towards the stage, mainstream media (MSM) faced a sear… Read More
2017-05-29 14:59
In our airy, white-walled office, we’re on a mission, to produce one of the first Masters course in the UK that merges journalism, image production and interactivity &mdas&hell…Read More
2017-05-07 18:47
At that given moment, Edward Bernays gave his cue whereupon a group of rich debutantes in a parade walking down New York’s fifth avenue pulled out cigarettes from their stockings and l… Read More
2017-05-07 17:42
Context
Here’s my story! Skip if you want, but this is my intro to journalism
I was being moved from one foster parent to another in the UK before my Dad hauled my sisters and I off… Read More
2017-02-19 17:56
The Dean gave me a padlock, a metaphorically one. The current key represented the status quo of university learning, the polished well honed modular structure many of us have benefited from… Read More
2017-01-03 11:55
The future isn’t what it used to be. It lives in the minds of dreamers, idealists, and artists who see its long shadows. We only bear witness once a moment in time has decomposed, when… Read More
2016-12-03 18:57
Hello! We’ve not met. I hope we can after this. Because what I have to say works better in person. I’ve met a fair few people on my journey in the media, including some tech gian… Read More
2016-11-27 20:42
In 2005 I won one of the US’ most coveted prizes for innovation in journalism, The Knight Batten Award, deeply respected by American J-schools and established international newsp… Read More
2016-10-30 12:08
I am you.
I am you who stares at the elegance of other's writings and beauty of their messages and wonders?
I am the you who seeks knowledge to understand systems and processess. Why and w… Read More
2016-10-11 23:53
Artists have a way of reading the future. Da Vinci on air travel, Poet William Blake prefiguring Einstein’s space-time continuum. Here, a set of uber Hollywood moguls side step our cur… Read More
2016-08-23 14:36
The queue (or line) was six people deep. It was a hot day stepping into a store, somewhere south of Austin Texas.
Can I have some water please?
What?, says the sale assistant.
Water! Can I h… Read More
2016-08-22 23:42
When it was first shown, critics exhorted it as a new form of cinema. Ordinary working class people were for the first time talking to the screen expressing their disgust at their rat-infest… Read More
2016-07-24 00:47
When I stared at my pc to build my first site in 96, the debate raging then amongst a burgeoning community of onliners was what constituted interactity.
It hasn't gone away. Twenty years ag… Read More
2016-05-29 23:32
I have just finished reading “Death to the Mass. Media must rebuild its business around relevance and value, not volume”, by the indefatigable Jeff Jarvis — a m… Read More
2016-05-13 22:53
Journalism using video is in a crisis. Cinema — that’s the future. You see an alternative: Snapchat, Vine, Instagram etc. I’m not disagreeing with you for now… Read More
2016-05-07 17:02
It’s an idea so powerful, like a virus it keeps growing. Its currency is its ability to recreate our mental landscape, impregnate us with concepts that affect our senses in ways… Read More
2016-04-03 09:31
It’s that tingling, numbing sensation in the fingers, closely followed by the perennial fight to keep your eyes open. Focus, focus! There’s a flaw in the code. What’s more… Read More
2016-03-24 21:40
Scary story! You’ve been working for an outfit for some 15 years — even as a regular freelancer, you had some inkling of the next pay cheque.
I did stints at the BBC… Read More
2016-03-22 11:39
Perhaps, an illustration of PR from the early 1900s illustrate its strategic approach and difference to journalism.Up until 1929, smoking for women was considered immoral. Psychoanalysts equ… Read More
2016-03-22 11:33
I’m doing SXSW.
To the couple of media people around me in London, when I heard the news, I might as well have spoken Klingon.
That’s #SXSW people — the super… Read More
2016-02-15 17:37
THE FIVE RULES OF THE THIRTY
There are no rules, just guidelines.
Different cultures interpret stories differently: know your audience.
Storytelling is an art and science —… Read More
2016-02-15 01:42
In the
run up to the UK General Election in 2015, with the Labour party gaining head
steam, the chips looked like falling for its leader Ed Milliband — a
doppler-type… Read More
2016-01-30 23:02
‘Why the modern world is bad for your brain’ published in the Guardian by neuroscientist Dr. Daniel J Levitan summarises how the world of tweeting/ emailing and watching tv… Read More
2015-06-12 05:41
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2015-03-24 21:28
Are we so gullible to think that every new phenomenon that has emerged in our digital existence has never seen the light of day before?
History, so eschewed by those who live in the now, pr… Read More
2015-02-27 07:18
What if Stephen Soberbergh did journalism?
If the evidence of his involvement in Citizen Four is anything to by, it would be memorable, perhaps entertaining, and above all cinematic.
Wi… Read More
2015-02-21 10:49
The air was laden. that rousing speech, and then a moment of silence until the room filled with spontaneous applause.
Some gift; some gift - that is to move people. To remind them of where… Read More
2015-02-10 22:47
We need more good stories, said Martyn Lewis.
Lewis happened to be one of the trusted voices of the BBC in the 1980s. but what happened next he could not have expected.
If the proposition… Read More
2015-01-19 07:21
David Dunkley Gyimah
University of Westminster senior lecturer,
It’s sunday morning. 10.30 to be precise. Day light creeping into the bedroom looks like something out of Dann… Read More
2014-12-08 17:00
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2014-12-03 14:30
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2014-11-02 11:37
EPILOGUE
By 3 O'clock in the afternoon, it dawned on me the magnitude of the story. We're holed up in a hotel near the Turkish-Syrian border. That's me standing on the bed.
Young Syrian… Read More
2014-10-17 16:59
This is my personal project yet. A psychological film about Masters students wrestling with the ideas and concepts that shape knowledge.
I was their supervisor and enjoyed working with them… Read More
2014-10-10 23:40
It’s no revelation we all want to be like someone. Caravaggio really wanted to be Leonardo Da Vinci. Popes wanted to be monarchs. Ronaldo would like to be Pele and Britain’s Prim… Read More
2014-10-10 14:18
Sabeen
al-Nuaim ( not her real name) was at ease speaking on camera. She
smoked a cigarette in between the pauses describing her filming days in
Syria.
She
had recently recorded a… Read More
2014-10-06 22:25
I'm in the midst of redesigning viewmagazine. tv, with what I hope are some exciting new links. Here's the front page Read More
2014-09-27 23:04
I was in NY for 3 days presenting at CUNY's Reinvent TV. Armed with a go pro, googleglass and my D5 I took these pictures.
I have annotated them with film themes, to give them… Read More
2014-09-20 14:15
She was singing near the town square in what was a beautiful day. The smell of fresh garlic from outdoor cooking suffused the air.
Behind her a few boys gathered as is their want on s… Read More
2014-09-08 06:03
I know what you're thinking.
Old picture, huh!
Some of you might know the figure. It's Kennedy.
To some that may not mean a whole lot. It's an old picture.
We live in a world where old i… Read More
2014-09-01 14:13
An ill five-year old, his family and the state — an unfolding story of Ashya King.
This morning I watched patiently a father speak about his very sick child.
The video… Read More
2014-08-27 10:24
The morning run was particularly eventful. I closed my eyes and reflected on four books I'm reading that have been enriching in different ways.
Just a Sound Guy- The Life of a Film and Te… Read More
2014-08-22 11:40
Students being entertained by one of the UK's most respected journalists, Jon Snow
When someone asks you how you're doing?
The common response could be: I'm doing fine, otherwise, 'I'm fin… Read More
2014-08-19 19:45
I see it now!
Scientists
refer to it as the ‘Aha’ moment. Otherwise, also the ‘penny drops’, or
that moment of lucidity, when strangely the answer appears so bli… Read More
2014-08-17 08:48
Wherever events surrounded Sir Cliff Richard end up, he has been hard done by. The public press coverage is a powerful lynching stick, loaded with supposition and winks.
The presumed innoce… Read More
2014-08-16 20:46
'No Violence'
'You don't know violence'
'You deserve it'
The man smartly dressed in a dark suit approaches his seated subject with deference. "Excuse me'. he says. Moment's later he is st… Read More
2014-08-11 14:36
Next month I'm speaking at the World Documentary Conference in Falmouth about this strange new film form called: videojournalism-as-cinema.
As with most academic presentations, I had to p… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
And then it came to pass. London's newest TV station was launched writes former Newsnight and Channel 4 Producer David Dunkley Gyimah.
Here's the catch 22. If you're launching a station you… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
London Live, which launches next week, will be a success writes former Newsnight and Channel 4 Producer, and Knight Batten Winner David Dunkley Gyimah
David will be presenting at the interna… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
David will be presenting at the International journalism festival on producing 21st century news story forms from his 6 year PhD research.
… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Publicity photos: 12 Years a Slave by Jaap Buitendijk - Fox Searchlight Pictures
Imagine this as a hypothetical. A newsroom gets wind of Solomon's artistry and wants to record his s… Read More
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