{"id":5176,"date":"2016-11-07T11:57:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T11:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:31:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:31:39","slug":"media-student-to-cover-the-us-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2016\/11\/07\/media-student-to-cover-the-us-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Student to cover the US Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bournemouth University students will work throughout the night to provide live coverage of the US Presidential Election across TV, radio and online platforms.<\/p>\n

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Students from courses across the Faculty of Media & Communication will work together to produce analysis, interviews and results from the Presidential Election on Tuesday 8 November.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The USA Votes 2016 project<\/a> will be shared across a range of platforms, including a dedicated website and livestreams of broadcast coverage.<\/p>\n

BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism<\/a> student Abi Simpson is editor for the project\u2019s radio content.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cOn the night we are hoping to broadcast live results, analysis, interviews and give an\u00a0insight into what’s going on in the US, how this might affect us here in the UK, and the impact on the world in general depending on the outcome of the votes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think from a listener’s perspective we are hoping to achieve informative, interesting, engaging and a slightly less serious version of the election. We are students and not the BBC after all, and we do want to put our own stamp on the coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The USA Votes 2016 project is being run in partnership with several US universities and a team of reporters will also broadcast live from Washington DC.<\/p>\n

It follows successful student-led coverage of both the 2012 US election and the UK General Election in 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took part in YourElection15 when I was a fresher, and it was by far the best experience I’ve had at university,\u201d said Abi.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved every minute of it. I felt like a real professional and it definitely boosted my passion for journalism.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow as a final year, I hope to test out everything I’ve learnt during my time at Bournemouth University and produce some\u00a0quality journalism, with some quality people.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added:\u00a0 \u201cWe are hoping to make the most of the rare opportunity of working with people from other courses and years, meeting all the guests and interviewees on the night, and generally just having a lot of fun and make the most of being right in the middle of this world event.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can follow the coverage on the USA Votes website<\/a>\u00a0and on Twitter @USA_Votes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bournemouth University students will work throughout the night to provide live coverage of the US Presidential Election across TV, radio and online platforms. Students from courses across the Faculty of Media & Communication will work together to produce analysis, interviews and results from the Presidential Election on Tuesday 8 November. The USA Votes 2016 project… Read more » about Media Student to cover the US Presidential Election<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1584,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1638],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-undergraduate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5178,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions\/5178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}