For my MA Online Journalism assignment I chose to focus cycling, I tried to map some cycle data but then realised I was losing my audience. In the second phase I got back on track but still wanted to do good with my data. Especially when I noticed that my Birmingham Cycle Map had received over 1,100 hits.
This is the second part of my assignment for my MA in Online Journalism. In the first part I explained how I was determined to graphically represent my data but as I read through Birmingham Cyclist Blog’s noticeboard I felt I was losing contact with the community and the story.
If you’re a Hashbrum subscriber, or are a regular reader of this blog you may have noticed a recent obsession with cycling. The reason for this is it formed part of my MA Online Journalism Newsgathering Experimental assignment. Here it is, split into three parts.
I post this morning about my noisy neighbours. Well encouraged by some of your comments me and the wife went round. I edited the audio as it was windy and got a bit boring and repetitive.
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It’s 7am now and I’m moving slowly into an acceptable time to be awake… however again this morning I’ve been woken up by my noisy neighbour. This is the seventh time in three weeks since she moved in and it’s driving me mad.
To hear me speaking about it in a frayed, rambling and borderline delirious manner click on the below boo.
I realise I’m not doing you any favours by revealing her identity but here are some facts:
She is in her mid-twenties
She is from Southmead in Bristol
She clatters around the house all times of the day, and plays her rubbish local radio too loud
She has a brutish boyfriend who she doesn’t get on well with
She laughs like a drain
I know I’m not in the best position to talk, but she clearly has no job
She appears to be an alcoholic
Her night time moods swing from partytime to argument to shouting that she doesn’t ‘Give a fuck’ at the top of her lungs
Her unacceptable hours are between midnight and 5:50am in the morning
As I explained in my boo, I’m looking for ways to resolve this. I’ve tried going round twice and being reasonable. I’ve written a letter and thrown it away and I’ve told my landlord.