Nicholas Brett This is Me

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1. 1. media.bournemouth.ac.uk

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   Published on: 2/11/2008   Last Visited: 2/11/2008

   PTC judges, including Nick Brett, Deputy Managing Director and Editorial Director of BBC Magazines, were particularly impressed that Dominic had succeeded in finding a "rare, real gap in the market".

2. 2. www.bbcmagazinesbristol.com

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   Published on: 8/29/2007   Last Visited: 8/29/2007

   Nick Brett BBC Deputy Managing Director and Editorial Director

3. 3. UKJournalism at the University of Central Lancashire

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   Published on: 12/2/2007   Last Visited: 4/24/2008

   Nick Brett with MA Magazine students Students have received an inspiring visit from Nick Brett, the Deputy Managing Director and Group Editorial Director of BBC Magazines and the PTC Chairman.
   
   Beginning as a reporter for an East London newspaper, Nick struck lucky when one of his stories was picked up by a national paper.
   
   Magazine junkie
   
   On the back of this success he got a job working for The Times. A self-confessed "magazine junkie" Nick joined BBC magazines in 1988 where he became Features Editor for the Radio Times.
   
   So followed a career that fed his "magazine obsession" and led to Nick being awarded the British Society of Magazine Editors' Mark Boxer lifetime achievement award in 2006 for his editorial contribution to magazines.
   
   Nick delivered an inspiring presentation titled Are You Ready for the Future, focusing on the impact of new media upon the magazine industry.
   
   He demonstrated how much the media has changed over the past 15 years. Most noticeably, newspapers have had to adopt some of the features characteristic to magazines.
   
   Nick Brett with MA Magazine students He described the reporting of the 9/11 tragedy as the event that "shook newspapers to their core."
   
   To display the impact of user-generated content upon the media, Nick showed a hilarious video called Numa Numa from YouTube.
   
   The clip, of an all-singing, all-dancing fat guy, has so far received 8 million hits. An astonishing figure highlighted by fact that the Beatles record, She Loves You, sold 8 million copies.
   
   Nick said in today's new media society it is possible to imagine everyone to be a journalist. The use of witnesses mobile phone images for news coverage is an example of this. However he rejects the idea of his glass being "half-full."
   
   He said a true journalist possesses the indispensable skills of storytelling, good writing, accuracy, timing and an understanding of their reader.