@hackista

šŸŒˆ Music & radio loving Londoner. Audio Producer, Senior Practice Tutor & Associate lecturer @goldsmithsUoL. Trustee @_multitrack. Ex BBC WS She/her. Own Views.

 London, England
Joined March 2011
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Early Bird Registration for the hybrid #DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries closes end of June. We have a wonderful array of keynotes and spotlight sessions, performances, paper sessions + panels enhancingaudiodescription.coā€¦

DARCI Conference ā€“ Enhancing Audio Description

We are delighted to announce that in September 2025 we will be hosting the Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries (DARCI) at the University of York (UK).

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All the screens! The clock is also a little screen and the one with levels also accesses the mixing desk controls.
Clare Runacres@ClareNews227 Mar 2025
A listener asked what all the screens are for in the newsbooth where I read bulletins on @BBCRadio2 @BBC6Music and @bbc5live - so hereā€™s a little tour. Hope you find it interesting! #radio #news #tech
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Fact check: Trump's team targets USAID with false claims p.dw.com/p/4q9ho?maca=en-Twiā€¦
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'Scandalous' move by university to open India campus amid job cuts bbc.com/news/articles/c4gwq7ā€¦

Queen's University Belfast criticised over India campus amid job cuts

A union accuses QUB of "directing taxpayer money into axing jobs in NI while creating them on foreign shores".

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Where is time, to whom does it belong, and how do we share it? Join @taqwa_sadiq for an evening of audio pieces that melt, squeeze, fracture, stretch and crinkle the idea of time itself. 19th Feb, at Camden Open Air Gallery. inthedarkradio.org/london-evā€¦
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Ex-Paramount executive @jpascoe hired by @thisislisten to continue its visualised podcast push #Listen #JonathanPascoe podcastingtoday.co.uk/listenā€¦

Listen hires ex-Paramount executive to continue visualised podcast push - PodcastingToday

Podcast production company Listen has appointed Jonathan Pascoe as Executive Producer.

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Lisa Hack retweeted
The Stage
@TheStage15 Jan 2025
Plans to cut audio drama from @BBCRadio3 have been labelled a ā€œdevastating loss for writers and actors alikeā€, with critics calling it the end of the ā€œNational Theatre of the airwavesā€ šŸ‘‡ thestage.co.uk/news/cuts-to-ā€¦

Cuts to Radio 3 drama will end ā€˜National Theatre of the airwavesā€™ ā€“ unions

The most recent commissioning brief for Radio 3 has removed all ā€˜radio drama slotsā€™, according to Equity, the Writersā€™ Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors

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Upcoming work from @MediaComGold Alum on @BBCRadio4 this Sunday.
Sam Stone@samebstone15 Jan 2025
My radio documentary 'Anger and Us' airs this Sunday on BBC Radio 4 at 7:15pm! It's a very personal project and was such a joy to produce. Big thanks to @FallingTreeProd for helping me make it and to my brother for being the greatest collaborator ā™„ļø bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00274pā€¦

BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, Anger and Us

Siblings Sam and Bon Stone are angry. For the first time, they explore how they feel.

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ā€˜I received a first but it felt tainted and undeservedā€™: inside the university AI cheating crisis theguardian.com/technology/2ā€¦

ā€˜I received a first but it felt tainted and undeservedā€™: inside the university AI cheating crisis

More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports...

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Rupert Murdoch loses battle to control succession to his media empire theguardian.com/media/2024/dā€¦

Rupert Murdoch loses battle to control succession to his media empire

Media mogulā€™s three adult children will retain control despite attempt to give his son Lachlan complete control

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Creeping to the other side ā€¦ bsky.app/profile/hackista.bsā€¦
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Lisa Hack retweeted
Jo@Josephine19678 Dec 2024
FYI @RadioStudies šŸ“¢ Newly rebadged, building on decades of #IFC legacy and innovation: International Features Conference is now #EBU Audio Storytelling. Submissions invited now šŸŽ™ļøšŸŽ§
EBU Audio Storytelling Festival@ebuasfestival18 Nov 2024
Letā€™s start the week with great news! We're now inviting you to share the best, most inspiring and impactful audio programmes for the EBU Audio Storytelling Festival 2025 in Vilnius! šŸŽ§ You can propose your own work or a piece of audio youā€™ve heard that really impressed you. ā¤µļø
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If youā€™re on ā€˜the other placeā€¦ā€™ weā€™ve got a new account for Audio, Radio and podcasting ā¦@MediaComGoldā© šŸ˜ƒ bsky.app/profile/goldaudioraā€¦
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Radio TechCon 2024 was a week ago today! Thank you so much once again to everyone who made #radtechcon happen. Delegates: look out for a feedback survey which is being sent to you later today. Once you fill it in, you'll get access to the slides and your CPD certificate :)
View over audience heads of Radio TechCon stage.

ALT View over audience heads of Radio TechCon stage.

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The same sentence recorded by different people results in widely different results and wider research shows bias present in racial and and gender. #radtechcon ā€“ at London, England
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Data shows that Amazon have the market covered when it comes to smart speakers. #RadTechCon
Graph showing over 70% of the smart speaker market is covered by Alexa.

ALT Graph showing over 70% of the smart speaker market is covered by Alexa.

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This is so interesting esp as someone who has dabbled with Skill making. Amazon Skill making kit for radio. 16% of people are listening to radio via them. Lead engineer @ohai_jamie guided us through the current landscape. #radTechCon
NEWS IN BRIEF ā€¢ Amazon Alexa still has the largest market share ā€¢ Alexa is an open platform - there are a lot of contending skills. Smaller stations, who's skills aren't as popular, can struggle with name recognition ā€¢ Amazon's no-code "Radio Skills Kit" lets you add radio stations directly to Alexa's built-in radio directory Jamie is on stage in front a slide with the text above. They are dressed in black and has long hair and glasses and van trainers.

ALT NEWS IN BRIEF ā€¢ Amazon Alexa still has the largest market share ā€¢ Alexa is an open platform - there are a lot of contending skills. Smaller stations, who's skills aren't as popular, can struggle with name recognition ā€¢ Amazon's no-code "Radio Skills Kit" lets you add radio stations directly to Alexa's built-in radio directory Jamie is on stage in front a slide with the text above. They are dressed in black and has long hair and glasses and van trainers.

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ā€œAlexa, tell us a bit about whatā€™s happening with Amazonā€™s Alex skills in the context of radio.ā€ Now itā€™s Amazon Alexa Skills: State of the Union @Ohai_Jamie #RadTechCon
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There is NOTHING funnier than watching someone in a VR headset when you arenā€™t. #radtechcon
VR headset in use.

ALT VR headset in use.

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Iā€™m at @RadTechCon but am over on IG taking over their IG feed today .. head over and keep me company. Handle is the same @RadTechCon.
Head shot of me at tech con. Ihave short salt and pepper hair and brown skin Iā€™m wearing a check shirt in dark blue and red with a white shirt under l. I have a green lanyard on.

ALT Head shot of me at tech con. Ihave short salt and pepper hair and brown skin Iā€™m wearing a check shirt in dark blue and red with a white shirt under l. I have a green lanyard on.

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