What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
My interest was pricked by a tweet I spotted last week: “New report slams inept hacks.” It linked to a report in the Financial Times about research on how reporters’ language affected the financial markets. The bones of the study was that reporters used more extreme language when reporting falls,
I discovered at a meeting this week that the term ‘hyperlocal’ is on its way out. I think that’s a shame. I realise that most of you reading this didn’t even know that the term ‘hyperlocal’ was a thing, so I’d better explain. If I asked you what ‘local media’
I recently had the opportunity to attend the Community Reporters Course run by South Leeds Life spending ten weeks learning skills in news story writing, opinion pieces and how to write the perfect headline. Held at the new South Leeds Community Radio headquarters we were quickly thrown in the
Would you like to learn some new skills? Write reports for this blog? Or publicity for your community group? Why not join the Community Reporters course? South Leeds Life is running another of its popular courses. The course will run on Wednesday mornings for ten weeks, starting on 9th
I came across this article in Friday’s (7/1/11) Yorkshire Evening Post (see link here for the full article). The article is about a man who was burgled in South Leeds losing £35k of personal belongings including a laptop with a clever piece of software installed – it tells him where it is