On May 15 2012, Aday.org asked people around the world to take a photograph of their daily life. Bringing together thousands of both amateur and professional photographers, with over 100,000 images from more than165 countries, their aim was to use the power of photography to create, share and inspire perspectives on daily life.

These images formed the largest ever global photography exhibition ‘A Day in the World’, staged simultaneously in over 22 countries, with an estimated worldwide audience of 46 million. Since then, 1,000 of these images have been chosen for a coffee table book by the same name.

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MFM and ADAY.org

Senior Lecturer Melanie Friend was a ‘Connector’ for this Swedish based international project, linking students taking photography modules to the ADAY.org organizers and encouraging students to submit their images to the project.

The Argus is a local newspaper based in Brighton and Hove. Founded as the Evening Argus in 1880, its editions continue to serve the city of Brighton and Hove along with other areas of Sussex.

The Argus covers all aspects of life in Brighton and Hove, including news, business, sport, entertainment, jobs, homes, events, reader offers and much more.

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back2back Productions is an award-winning independent documentary production company who create challenging, entertaining and thought-provoking television programmes.

Their aim is to make brilliant television. Around since 2000, they offer comprehensive, high-end audio and video post-production facilities, available with or without their experienced crew.

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MFM and back2back

Since 2009, students from our MA in Digital Documentary have undertaken internships with back2back Productions. This kind of practical experience provides our students with the relevant skills needed to work within the broadcast industries and helps them to stand out from the crowd when job-hunting.

Located in the heart of Brighton, The Basement is a leading purveyor of innovative and experimental performance. Presenting a programme of leading national and international artists alongside the Brighton’s most exciting experimental performers.

The Basement supports a thriving community of supported and associated artists who develop and present new work in the venue. With a range of unusual performance spaces they offer unique performance possibilities for artists and audiences.

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The Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce is a business network with a diverse membership including artists, writers, digital media talent, service organisations and professionals in law and finance.

The Chamber is the voice of the city’s business people, representing their members politically and economically. They work closely with local agencies on issues like business legislation, whilst providing networking opportunities and delivering advice and training.

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MFM and The Brighton Chamber of Commerce

Our postgraduate students have undertaken internships with the Brighton Chamber of Commerce. This has helped to develop their industry skills and provided them with excellent professional experience.

Brighton Digital Festival is a month-long celebration of all things digital, bringing together the city’s vibrant arts and digital communities. From small-scale meet ups to big name conferences, from digital artists’ experimental ideas to fully mounted exhibitions, the Festival promises something for everybody and because most events are free, plenty of opportunities to discover something new. 

 Visit the Brighton Digital Festival website 

Brighton Festival is an annual three week Festival which takes place in May. Originally started in 1967, it is now the largest arts festival in England and one of the major milestones in the international cultural calendar.

Brighton Festival has a long tradition for attracting the most exciting performers from across the globe, as well as promoting local artists, and bringing fresh, challenging new work to Brighton. 

 Visit the Brighton Festival website 

Brighton Fringe started as an extension to the Brighton Festival’s curated programme in 1967 and worked as a showcase for local artists, performers and promoters. The Fringe grew so considerably that it became a company and festival in its own right in 2006.

Brighton Fringe is now the third largest open-access, multi-art form festival in the world. Brighton and Hove is the ideal location for the Fringe Festival, given the city’s unique heritage of liberalism and creativity.

 Visit the Brighton Fringe Festival website

Brighton Fuse is a research and development project which aims to analyse the growth of Brighton’s successful creative, digital and information technology cluster, whilst promoting further innovation and economic development.

The project is run by Wired Sussex, the University of Sussex, the University of Brighton and the Council of Industry & Higher Education. Brighton Fuse is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council.

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MFM and Brighton Fuse

The University of Sussex is a delivery partner of the Brighton Fuse project.

BIMM is a music college that offers fully accredited, intensive music courses for individuals who are committed to a career in music or the music industry. They offer a range of music degrees and diplomas as well as music teacher training courses for Higher and Further Education.

Brighton was selected as the base for the college because of the vibrant music and arts scene, along with the availability of gigs, studios, record labels and artists.

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Brighton Journalist Works is an independent journalism training company which offers courses that are accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ). NCTJ accreditation means you are ready to become a journalist and hit the ground running from day one. The NCTJ qualification is recognised by editors and publishers all over the world.

Brighton Journalist Works offer unique multimedia training which takes place in the offices of The Argus.

 Visit the Brighton Journalist Works website

The Brighton Media Centre is open to professional artists, students, graduates and corporate clients from the design/creative industries in Brighton. Brighton is a location of excellence for all forms of media practice and the Media Centre has helped to facilitate the growth of this industry by offering facilities, networking events, exhibitions, electronic networks, business support and information services for the sector.

Brighton Media Centre offer flexible performance spaces, an exhibition gallery, a photographic studio, a film studio, a sound studio and a secret garden venue.

 Visit the Brighton Media Centre website

Brighton Ourstory was set up in 1989 in order to preserve lesbian, gay and bisexual history. They work to collect material about the lesbian, gay and bisexual past - and present - and to make sure that their experience is preserved and made visible to the LGBT community.

Brighton Ourstory produce exhibitions, publications and performances based on these objectives and are working towards establishing a history archive in their own premises.

 Visit the Brighton Ourstory website

Brighton Photo Fringe was founded in 2003 in partnership with Brighton Photo Biennial (BpB), which began the same year. The Fringe was devised for local artists to become involved with the international festival, BpB. The Fringe has since grown into an all-encompassing festival, attracting 144,000 visitors in 2010.

The Fringe is open to all, which makes it distinct from any other photography or lens based festival presently working in the UK.

 Visit the Brighton Photo Fringe website

MFM and the Brighton Photo Fringe

We provide an office space for the Brighton Photo Fringe on campus, in our Silverstone building, and our students are interns within their office.

The BBC is the world's leading public service broadcaster. Its mission is to enrich people's lives with programmes that inform, educate and entertain. Established by a Royal Charter, the BBC is a public service broadcaster funded by the licence fee paid by UK households.

The BBC use the income from the licence fee to provide services including 10 national TV channels plus regional programming, 10 national radio stations, 40 local radio stations and an extensive website.

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MFM and the BBC

Marcus Ryder, the Head of Current Affairs at BBC Scotland is an Honourary Senior Lecturer and contributes to our journalism courses.

Andy O’Dwyer from the BBC Research and Development Department will be delivering a talk as part of our MA Masterclass series, open to all of our MFM Masters students. 

The BFI is the lead organisation for film in the UK. Since 1933 they’ve cared for the BFI National Archive, and celebrated the best of British and international filmmaking through festivals, film restoration, DVD releases and cinema programming.

The BFI combine cultural, creative and industrial roles, film distribution and exhibition, publishing and festivals. They also award Lottery funding to film production, distribution, education, audience development and market intelligence and research.

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Channel 4 is a publicly-owned, commercially-funded public service broadcaster, with a remit to be innovative, experimental and distinctive.

In addition to the main Channel 4 service, their portfolio includes E4, More4, Film4 and 4Music, and a range of online activities that includes the video-on-demand service 4oD. Through Film4 Channel 4 is also a key supporter of British film making talent. As a publisher-broadcaster, Channel 4 is required to commission UK content from the independent production sector. They are a major investor in the UK's creative economy, working with around 300 creative companies every year and investing significantly in training and talent development throughout the industry.

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CINECITY is a film and moving image agency which provides a year-round programme of events, screenings and exhibitions, and hosts the annual CINECITY Brighton Film Festival.

The festival includes the very best in international cinema, a global mix of premieres and previews, artists’ cinema and installations, treasures from the archive, retrospectives, free education screenings and events, talks and debates.

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CoMA (Contemporary Music for All) is dedicated to enabling amateur musicians to become involved in contemporary music and works in partnership with professional musicians in order to bring new music to wider audiences.

CoMA Sussex have performed at events such as Soundwaves Festival and Brighton Live, and regularly hold workshops, give concerts and take part in musical collaborations. As well as CoMA commissions and Open Score pieces, they perform music composed by their own members, and other new and experimental music. 

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Culture24 is a non-profit, cultural publishing organization, which supports arts and heritage venues in reaching audiences across digital platforms. They work on collecting, curating and distributing content about museums, galleries and other cultural institutions, publishing websites, and leading action research projects.

Culture24 provides a digital platform for cultural organisations of all sizes, promoting their activities and content to a wider audience. They also run the national Museums at Night campaign.

 Visit the Culture24 website

DAM PR is a public relations consultancy based in Brighton. They work to raise their clients' profiles across the media - including print, online, broadcast and social networks, on an international, national, regional and local scale.

DAM PR was created by David Andrews, a former national newspaper financial writer/editor, specializing in consumer/corporate finance.

 Visit the DAM PR website

MFM and DAM PR

David Andrews regularly delivers talks to our journalism students, sharing his vast expertise and experience of the sector.

The Duke of York’s opened on 22nd September 1910 and is the UK’s oldest purpose-built cinema, as verified by the Cinema Theatres  Association. It has continually operated as a cinema throughout its lifetime and is recognized as one of the country’s most important independent cinemas.

Over its one hundred years The Duke of York’s has gone from Edwardian Picture Palace to ‘flea-pit’ to leading independent cinema going through many stages that reflect the changing nature of cinema exhibition in this country. 

 Visit The Duke of York’s website

Fabrica is a visual arts organization based in a former Regency church in the heart of Brighton. Fabrica commissions contemporary visual art installations specific to the building.

This contemporary art gallery hosts exhibitions, education programmes, talks, workshops and events.

 Visit the Fabrica website

The Feminist Review Trust is a grant-giving body, which exists to fund research and other scholarly activity on all aspects of gender. The Trust invites applications for its research grants and supports feminist scholars and activities. 

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FotoDocument’s mission is to provide an international public platform for documentary photography. Focusing on social, cultural and environmental issues on a global scale, they believe world-class photography can be a powerful communication tool.

FotoDocument Fringe is a project open to amateur and professional photographers of all ages, from all over the world. Working in partnership with the Brighton Photo Fringe, they recently curated photo essays on positive environmental global initiatives at Brighton Railway Station.

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MFM and FotoDocument

As part of the third year of the Media and Film Studies course and the MA in Journalism and Media Studies, students have undertaken projects to create images for entry into the FotoDocument Fringe. Senior Lecturer and photographer Melanie Friend has also been a judge for the FotoDocument Fringe.

Based in Liverpool, FACT is one of the UK's leading media art centres. The FACT building houses three galleries and four cinema screens, showing the best in independent and mainstream film. FACT also runs its own film programmes, focusing on classic and art house.

Since the organisation was founded in 1988, they have commissioned and presented over 250 new media and digital artworks from artists. FACT’s Research team works with partners across the creative industries, health, high education and arts sectors to develop innovative projects.

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Glyndebourne opera house was founded in 1934 by John Christie and his opera singer wife, Audrey Mildmay. Glyndebourne is committed to presenting opera of the highest quality, commissioning new work, developing new talent and reaching new audiences.

The Glyndebourne Festival presents six productions each year in a 1,200-seat opera house. Glyndebourne on Tour, founded in 1968, takes three productions around the UK each autumn. Together, Festival and Tour present about 120 performances a year to an audience of around 150,000.

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MFM and Glyndebourne

The Music Department’s partnership with Glyndebourne has, over a number of years, resulted in visits by students to performances, workshops and masterclasses, pre-concert talks by Music Department researchers at Glyndebourne, and collaborative projects involving both students and staff.

Founded in 2006, The Great Escape is a leading event for showcasing new music. Kick-starting the festival season annually, The Great Escape takes place in Brighton over 3 days in May.

The festival introduces 16,000 music lovers to the key artists and sounds of the year, with over 300 bands playing in 30 venues over 3 days. The Alternative Escape, numerous club nights, label parties, industry showcases, unique collaborations and outdoor gigs all add to the festivities.

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Lee Miller produced some of the most powerful photographs seen this century, from portraits of her friends such as Pablo Picasso, to her work as a correspondent with the US army in World War II.

The Lee Miller Archives is a small privately run archive which is dedicated to conserving and publishing the work of Lee Miller. The archive holding includes some 60,000 negatives, mainly black and white, most of her manuscripts, captions, notes letters and ephemeral material, her cameras, and some of her personal effects such as her US Army uniform.

 Visit the Lee Miller Archive website

Lighthouse is a digital culture agency which supports, commissions and exhibits work by artists and filmmakers. Working with digital art and moving image, they provide a platform for digital artists and creators to demonstrate that digital culture is about more than technology and tools; it is about ideas, emotion, learning, and aesthetics.

Lighthouse also runs the UK’s leading mentoring programme for filmmakers – Guiding Lights – which supports rising film talent by connecting them with some of the industry’s greatest names.

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Makemedia is a digital media agency which specialises in developing digital media strategies and innovative projects.

Makemedia define, design and develop websites, web applications and engaging digital content.

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MFM and Makemedia

Laura Evans, the Marketing Manager at Makemedia, is a graduate of our MA in Digital Media. Laura is a regular speaker on our courses.

Our postgraduate students have undertaken work placements at Makemedia, which has helped to develop their industry skills whilst providing them with relevant professional experience.

Miranda Birch has 24 years of journalistic experience at the BBC and is now working independently with companies, charities and business coaches on content delivery.

Miranda Birch Media services include copywriting for websites, social media, publicity material and articles, and facilitation with generating ideas for website content and media coverage.

 Visit the Miranda Birch Media website

MFM and Miranda Birch Media

Miranda, a member of our alumni, has come in to speak to our students and share her impressive breadth of experience.

She has also worked with us on an employability project.

NixonMcInnes is one of the UK’s largest social business consultancies. They believe that in order to thrive in the 21st century, businesses must become more social.

NixonMcInnes help large organisations to embrace social and digital communications and technology.

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MFM and NixonMcInnes

Our postgraduate students have undertaken work placements with NixonMcInnes, providing them with a wealth of professional experience and building on their industry skills.

One World Media believe the media can be a powerful tool to increase global dialogue and understanding, to support international development and promote democracy and fair government worldwide.

Since 1987 they have been working with insiders and experts across all media, creating links to people in the fields of international development, human rights and education who recognise the part the media can play in tackling issues like poverty, hunger, climate change and conflict resolution.

 Visit the One World Media website

Photoworks is a leading agency for photography that produces commissions, exhibitions and events, publishes books and the influential magazine, Photoworks.

Collaborating with a broad range of artists and organisations, engaging the widest possible audiences, Photoworks encourages debate and inspires new thinking about photography.

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Pier Productions was established in 1993 and is a major supplier of both factual and drama programmes to BBC Radio.

They also make television programmes with credits on BBC 1, BBC 2 and BBC 4.

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MFM and Pier Productions

Award-winning BBC Radio drama producer David Blount from Pier Productions is a regular speaker for both the year 2 and year 3 sound/radio practice modules on our undergraduate degree courses.

Podium is a new concept of communication, a platform for the under 20s to express and share their views through free daily podcasts.

An emerging social enterprise, Podium aims to empower young people, give them a voice and create work experience opportunities in broadcasting.

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MFM and Podium

Podium is currently working with some of our second year sound/radio practice students to develop podcast material for the 13 to 19 year-old market. The relationship between Sussex and Podium looks set to grow and continue for some time.

Brighton Pride is over twenty years old and one of the biggest festivals of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) culture in the UK. Taking place in August of each year, Pride is one of the main events in the city’s calendar and attracts tens of thousands of visitors.

The focus of Pride is to promote equality and diversity, eliminate discrimination and celebrate the LGBT community.

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See Festival is a weeklong celebration of international documentaries hosted annually in Brighton.

Since 2005 the festival has been attracting celebrated filmmakers such as Louis Theroux, Nick Broomfield and Luke Holland. The festival includes a diverse selection of film Screenings, Seminars, Q&As and Master Classes.

 Visit the See Festival website

The University of Brighton is multi-campus coastal university delivering career-focused courses at undergraduate and postgraduate degree level.

A post-1992 university with a community of over 21,000 students and 2,600 staff based on five campuses in Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings. Each town has lots of opportunities to get involved in its culture and community – offering something for everyone and a great place to study and live.

 Visit the University of Brighton website

Wired Sussex is a Brighton-based membership organisation for companies and freelancers operating in the digital, media and technology sector in the Sussex area.

Wired Sussex hosts a jobs board with the latest vacancies from games, web, mobile, software, animation, TV, music, film and online advertising and PR companies in Sussex.

 Visit the Wired Sussex website