News

Following the continued success of the ITV News Group Journalism Traineeship, ITV will be offering the scheme for a fifth successive year in 2010. The ITV News Trainee scheme offers the opportunity for enthusiastic and committed people to develop skills in broadcast journalism within the company. The year will offer a blend of formal courses and ‘on the job’ training in one of the ITV regional newsrooms. (more…)

The Drum recently announced, the UK’s first twitter awards to celebrate the best of Twitter. A FREE entry encouraged individuals, businesses and consumers, to tell the world why they are the one to follow. (more…)

On Wednesday 28 October, Charles Cecil will attend the London Games Festival as the keynote speaker at GameHorizon’s Best of British conference. Charles Cecil is the man behind the most successful console-based adventure franchise of all time, Broken Sword. Codeworks caught up with him ahead of the event to interview him about the current British games industry. (more…)

On Wednesday 21 October, The Loft hosted the fifth gathering of  Leeds Girl Geeks for our Girl Geek Dinner. The day got off to a great start with nti’s own Leia Bassett and Becky Edlin from Magpie Communications being invited on to the Radio Leeds breakfast show to explain what being a girl geek is all about. (more…)

Residents of all ages were invited to come and take part on Friday 9th October, in a completely free celebration of the city™s diverse and exciting arts scene. The spectacular annual Light Night arts event took place in Leeds city centre with several contributions from Old Broadcasting House. (more…)

The Guardian has announced their latest initiative for the city of Leeds. If you are a blogger interested in creating and curating local multimedia content for your city, find out more about the latest job opportunity to be The Guardian’s leading Beatblogger. (more…)

Yorkshire Forward have announced the call for entries to the Innovator/10 awards, promising to be the most prestigious yet with finalists being joined by over 200 of Yorkshire and Humber’s leading businesses. So what does it take to be an innovator? Watch this video to find out! (more…)

The wait is over. The new Snow Leopard operating system and Final Cut and Logic Studios from Apple are here. With dozens of improvements and features, these new versions are a must-have for any serious professional Mac user. All nti Leeds Macs are now currently going through an uprgading process, which will benefit not only course delegates, but those using our coworking space too.  We’re also making sure all nti Leeds’ Apple courses have been updated to reflect the changes, so we can make sure you have the most up to date skills possible. (more…)

nti Leeds is pleased to announce that Girl Geek Dinners Leeds (managed through a partnership of nti Leeds, Carbon Imagineering and Kilo75) and Girl Geek Scotland will be working together with partners to develop a series of new inspirational podcasts for young women in education aspiring to a career in the Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) industries. (more…)

Award-winning web design company, Creode, have been shortlisted for ˜University Spin-out of the Year™ in the prestigious Yorkshire Post Excellence in Business awards. The award, sponsored by O2, comes just weeks after Creode™s 1st birthday celebrations and hopes to be their second award of the year. (more…)

On the 10th September 2009, Leeds Metropolitan University™s Rose Bowl hosted Leeds’ first encounter with the independently run TEDx event. Organised and introduced by Imran Ali (Carbon Imagineering), nti Leeds, and Codeworks, TEDxLeeds was one of five TEDx events to take place in cities across the north of the UK in a venture entitled TEDxNorth, who™s main organiser Herb Kim, gave thanks to the hard work and time given to what would be a challenging and exciting evening for all in attendance. Sponsors included the West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network and Screen Yorkshire as the main funders of the event. (more…)

The first Expo Leeds unconference for sound art and experimental music launched at Old Broadcasting House on 25 September to kick off the Expo Leeds weekend festival. The unconference explored exciting, ground-breaking, experimental practices in music and sound creation, including digital technologies, research and live demos, with speakers coming from around the world. Discussions sparked questions from the wide range of people in attendance to find out more about what™s new in the world of creative sound. (more…)

Leeds Met has launched its new website Business, Enterprise, & Innovation Services, to showcase its offer to businesses. Visitors to the site will find a range of offerings that draw on expertise from across the University, such as consultancy, knowledge transfer partnerships and research.  Case Studies are also featured, which allow you to view examples of how organisations have already worked with Leeds Met.

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Leeds Metropolitan University’s Innovation North Faculty, the Regional University Network and Joint Audio Media Education Services (JAMES) hosted a wide and varied panel of music industry experts at the recent Music & Media Conference 2009. (more…)

Creative Boom is a new online magazine and forum for the UK™s creative industries, dreamt up by Katy Cowan, the founder and director of creative PR agency Boomerang PR.  The magazine has already obtained a substantial following, both on the website itself and on Twitter, and provides a fantastic opportunity for creatives to meet and greet, share ideas and find out about everything that™s happening, from events to news and new projects to feature profiles. (more…)

MediaCityUK has announced the launch of it’s brand new website as it continues to prepare for the major new production network that will be based in Salford, Manchester. MediaCityUK will be the host of BBC North including Sport, Radio 5 live, Learning and aspects of the Future, Media and Technology team. They will joined by Dragon™s Den, Songs of Praise, Question of Sport and both local & regional services.

MediaCityUK hopes to be a truly creative community that dreams up new ideas, develop great content, and find opportunities for collaboration with like-minded people. Visit the new website at www.mediacityuk.co.uk and find out more.

Thanks to event information in the Leeds Guide, Alison Sheppard, otherwise known as blogger THEGOODDR paid a visit to the Evening with Dan Meth event at our very own Old Broadcasting House on 20th August 2009. (more…)

Award-winning web design company, Creode, recently celebrated their first birthday. Created by James Hannaford and Luke Harrison, both 22, this young innovative company has proved how even new graduates can buck the trend in the current economic climate. (more…)

About Objects has announced that they will be partnering with nti Leeds to offer iPhone 3.0 developer training in the UK.

About Objects President, Jonathan Lehr said: “We’re excited to be working with nti Leeds to help bring the very latest in iPhone developer training. The iPhone Development course is designed to give developers a quick, solid understanding of iPhone programming fundamentals, as well as some real hands-on proficiency with the APIs and tools.” (more…)

The Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network (DCKTN) and UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) are pleased to announce a competition open to UK-based SMEs with an innovative new mobile or wireless solution or product to win a place at the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. (more…)