BA Media and Communications – Coventry University
An area of professional media which was spoken about in our guest speaker series was production. Personally, production had never really interested me before as, after hearing from people I know on production-based courses, this seemed to be all about video editing. This thought of mine also seemed to be supported by my further reading […]
An industry that was spoken about in our media guest speaker series was advertising. According to ipa.co.uk, “All businesses, charities, celebrities and governments depend on advertising to make themselves known and to relay their latest messages” (IPA, 2021) thus showing that advertising can be considered as a pivotal media industry. Personally, I have been interested in […]
As part of a University group project, we created a podcast based on our chosen media industry of public relations. For this podcast, our hosts Ben and Barbara interviewed Amy Ahmed-Dolphin, Whistle PR Account Director, about the PR industry, career experiences, and advice for anyone aspiring to enter this field. Provided in this section is […]
A career which was spoken about in our professional guest speaker series was social media management. Social media management is a career with increasing relevance due to the growth of the internet in the past few decades, with the internet growing exponentially including a number of countries where over 60% of the population have access […]
One media industry that was included in our guest speaker series was journalism. In 2018, this industry was estimated to employ over 70,000 media professionals (Spilsbury, 2018) and therefore I was intrigued to see how an industry as vast as this could work and, whilst I myself am not looking to become a journalist, I […]
