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Cardiff Bay - changing industry, changing community

After years of decline, Cardiff Bay is thriving again - but this time, for very different reasons. Matt Elton investigates the impact of the changing nature of the city's d

Sometimes, amidst the shorthand outlines and deadlines, it's easy to lose sight of the reasons you've decided to pursue journalism as a career. For me, it's always been about people: their lives, their opinions. Their stories. For this reason, Daniel Meadows' lecture last week was inspiring.

Meadow's opening display of a series of polyfotos of his parents captured s

I’m a writer. I love the written word, whatever form it takes and whatever medium it’s in – be it newspaper, magazine, or the internet. But I’m also a magazine student, and I love magazines. The space
they offer for detailed commentary, for analysis, their

Thinking about the internet as something other than an abstract concept is sometimes difficult. But, Spannerworks’ Antony Mayfield argued, viewing the web as a network is important in order to
understand its full potential – and to put it in context of the historical
development of communication.

The main theme of Pete Clifton's lecture a couple of weeks ago was integration. The blurring of the boundaries between print, broadcast and online is a message we've been hearing repeatedly from various sources over the last few months, but never delivered as interestingly (or swearily) as here.

The former head of