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Inside the newsroom with BBC One’s ‘Press’

A new BBC One drama on the enthralling life inside two fictional daily British national newspapers made its long-awaited debut last Thursday. Press revolves around the day-to-day life of journalists at The Herald, a broadsheet newspaper, and The Post, a tabloid paper. The pressure to gain exclusive stories, alongside the financial demand to...
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By , Sep. 13, 2018

The relationship between social media and book cover design

Does social media influence book cover design? is a question Holly Connolly of The Guardian asked readers last week. My answer: what doesn’t it influence? Social media is undoubtedly the strongest marketing tool targeting modern consumers. It changes and dictates what we eat, wear, watch, think, and now read. But not...
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By , Sep. 13, 2018

The emergence of the Black Madonna

The politicisation of art has ushered in a new wave of contemporary artists revaluating the depiction of religious figures in art and film. One such image is the Madonna who, although hailing from what would now be called Palestine, has long been depicted as a fair, blue-eyed blonde. Now, with...
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By , Sep. 12, 2018

My summer reading diary

Being a (joint honours) English student, my ability to read novels for pleasure this summer has been severed slightly, so only one of these reads is a novel. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Beginning the hopeful summer with an intense dose of bleak and violent nihilism, I read Cormac McCarthy’s...
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By , Sep. 11, 2018