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Just one week to go for the BPM Student Challenge
Just one week to go for the BPM Student Challenge
The BPM Student
Challenge deadline is fast approaching, with just one week
left for students to get their entries in.
For a chance
at winning $1,000 prizes, University and High School
students must answer the following
question:
How well is today’s media serving
your community?
What could it do
better?
Entries can be an essay, video,
podcast or any other type of content.
The competition is
open to tertiary students and secondary students with
separate judging and separate
prizes.
$1,000 for each winner and
$500 for second place. The High School
winner also wins $500 for their school's
media studies department.
The deadline is 5pm, Sunday
13th October 2019.
The BPM Student Challenge is a
competition aimed at getting young people thinking about the
media and its place in our lives.
As new forms of media
sweep the country, New Zealand's journalism, entertainment
and public discussion changes too - sometimes for better and
sometimes for worse.
Better Public Media are keen to
learn what young New Zealanders see as their future media,
how they want it to serve them, and what must be done to
ensure the benefits of public media are not
lost.
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To
enter students must consider the questions above, in a piece
of content:
A written essay, of 1200-2000 words.
Short film/documentary/podcast, maximum duration of 7
minutes. Such a production can also be a team effort of
eligible students.
Authored blog or other
self-generated content, with text of 1200-2000 words.
A research report, which reviews the literature and may
include original field research, of 1200-2000 words.
Something else? BPM accepted a song last year!
The
deadline is 5pm, Sunday 13th October 2019.
Students are
advised to enter now to avoid late nights and unpleasant
tension on October the 12th!
Go to www.betterpublicmedia.org.nz for more
information.
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Note
for the grammaticists and English teachers concerned by our
use of the word 'media':
Yes, we know that media is the
plural of medium but we think it's changed to also be the
singular as well. We're sorry to contribute to the 'demise'
of English and we'll meet you in grammatical hell,
literally.
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