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Podcasts by journalism tutors at Manchester Metropolitan University's multimedia journalism unit. Looking at issues and debates in media law, journalism ethics and regulation, and much more....

Episodes

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Liz H video simulrec set up

Dr Liz Hannaford from the Multimedia Journalism section of Manchester Metropolitan University describes the set up in her home office for re...

00:00:52Feb 10, 2026

Radical Journalism in Manchester walkabout 2022 23

MMU multimedia journalism students Alicia Russell and Rosa Bown join tutor Pete Murray on a walking tour around the history of radical journ...

00:40:29Dec 13, 2022

Picket Line Podcast ep2

Episode #2 of ThePicketLinePodcast, and we speak to Rebecca Long-Bailey MP on the future for students amid the current universities pay and...

00:13:54Nov 25, 2022

Picket Line podcast #UCURising 1

Welcome to an episode of ThePicketLinePodcast, as members of the University and College Union join strike action across the sector. We speak...

00:10:59Nov 24, 2022

Journalists under arrest - journalists and the "secret" courts

This week: the arrest of journalists covering Just Stop Oil protests in Hertfordshire; we look at Contempt of Court issues following the dea...

00:45:31Nov 10, 2022

BangToRights at the Castlefield Viaduct

In the new format for Bang To Rights, we're heading out into Manchester City Centre for an audio tour of the National Trust's "sky park" urb...

00:22:53Nov 4, 2022

Lyra's legacy - a new film on the life of the murdered Northern Ireland Journalist

Welcome back to Bang To Rights. We're back with a new format, new stories. In this episode, we speak to Alison Millar, director of the new f...

00:33:42Oct 27, 2022

NQLive 27 October

Rebecca Redican presents this week's NQ Live programme. We report on the Budget, the "Girls Night In" boycott in Manchester, protesting agai...

00:07:16Oct 27, 2021

Mock COP26 conference at Man Met Unit

Rebecca Redican reports for The Northern Quota on the Mock COP26 conference held at Manchester Metropolitan University. Students met in a se...

00:06:18Oct 21, 2021

A walking tour of radical journalism in Manchester, from 1819 to today

Bang To Rights is back - with a guided walking tour around some of the milestones in the history of journalism in Manchester. We start with...

00:44:10Sep 17, 2021

The sound of Coronavirus

Recording the voices of ICU nurses and doctors treating patients with Covid-19, or a crowdsourcing journalism project to examine the future...

00:42:27Apr 9, 2020

Isolated? We go on a global Coronavirus journalism tour

In a bumper episode, we speak to journalists from Lancashire to The Hague, Italy to Hong Kong about how Coronavirus and the Covid-19 lockdow...

01:08:43Mar 26, 2020

No stereotypes allowed

In a break from the Bang To Rights formula, we're joined this week by two young podcasters, Hanya Hesham and Siddra Asghar to talk about the...

00:20:08Mar 11, 2020

How not to be scared of the death knock

We speak to freelance reporter Jan Disley about how to approach bereaved families or close friends when you're asked to call them for commen...

00:35:25Feb 27, 2020

Save us all from harm - can Ofcom do that?

We examine the expanding role of the broadcasting regulator Ofcom as the government says it is "minded" to give it an additional role polici...

00:24:10Feb 12, 2020

Mental health and healthy journalism - Claire Sanderson from Women's Health magazine

This week, we're joined by a studio audience of MMU multimedia journalism students and by Claire Sanderson, editor-in-chief of Women's Healt...

00:40:15Feb 5, 2020

"When you go, will you send back..." a letter from London, Ontario

The crew in Manchester hooks up with Ellie Shember-Critchley who's at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario this week. MMU's Northern Quota re...

00:26:56Jan 31, 2020

It'll be cameras in the lobby briefing next

This week, the crew looks at cameras in Crown Court, how the decision could change coverage of high profile criminal cases, and whether it w...

00:29:34Jan 22, 2020

Stop and Search, the Manchester Mayor, and the media

We're back, and this week we tackle how news organisations report on crime, stop and search, and the portrayal of young men in Black, Asian...

00:30:03Jan 15, 2020

Rise of the machines - the future of AI and fact checking

In a bumper show, we speak to Rebecca Day, live news reporter at the Manchester Evening News, on covering the range of breaking news stories...

00:39:06Dec 4, 2019