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It’s back! Our weekly Black Community Coverage Clinic returns this month! This free consultancy service provides marketing, communications and media support and guidance to Southampton’s black community organisation leaders and representatives. The weekly drop-in first launched in 2020, running on…
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Tags: African diaspora, Africans in Southampton, amplify black voices, black communities in Hampshire, black communities in Southampton, black community, black community groups, Black History Month, black people in Southampton, Caribbean communities, Caribbean community, Caribbeans in Southampton, digital media, diverse communications, diversity, diversity in southampton, inclusive communications, local media, media bias, media coverage, media racism, media skills, media training, Southampton, Southampton's black communities
Proud To Be is the theme of this year’s Black History Month and we’re running a Mobile Storytelling course with that theme! Our Version Media is Proud To Be a social enterprise equipping Southampton’s black and under-represented communities with digital media and storytelling…
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Tags: Africans in Southampton, Beverley Dowdell, black community, Black Heritage Group, Black History Month, Black History Month South, black people in Southampton, Caribbeans in Southampton, community journalism, digital media, digital media skills, diversity, diversity in southampton, Elena Gheorghita, Keesha Edwards, MAST Mayflower Studios, Mayflower Engage, media skills, media training, mobile journalism, mobile storytelling, Ophelia Matthias, Southampton, Southampton City of Culture 2025, Veronica Gordon
With lockdown over, we’ve moved our Mobile Storytelling to Showcase Social Impact workshops from online to in-house! Whether at our base at MAST Mayflower Studios or out in the community, it’s great to be back connecting with people face-to-face! We ran…
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Tags: black community, community group, community journalism, culture in Southampton, digital media, diversity, diversity in southampton, Energise Me, MAST Mayflower Studios, Mayflower Engage, mobile journalism, mobile storytelling, Newtown, Northam, Northam Community Centre, SO25, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, Southampton, Southampton City of Culture 2025, Veronica Gordon, young people
Our Version Media is now an official CPD Accredited training provider! That means people who take our best-selling Mobile Storytelling to Showcase Social Impact workshop can now earn points to support their professional development. CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development, the learning…
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Tags: broadcast journalist, community activist, community organiser, cpd, CPD accreditation, CPD accredited, digital media, digital storytelling, journalist course, journalist training, journalist workshop, media course, media qualification, media qualifications, media skills, media training, media workshop, mobile journalism, mobile journalist, mobile storytelling, new media, professional development, professional training, reporter training, roving reporter, social impact, Southampton, video journalism
Our Version Media is an official media partner of Southampton’s UK City of Culture 2025 Bid. Our founder, Veronica Gordon, has been featured in Southampton 2025’s blog. In it she revealed what she loves about Southampton, why she’s supporting the…
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Category: Southampton
Tags: black community, black people in Southampton, community radio, diversity, featured, journalist in Southampton, mobile journalism, mobile storytelling, multimedia journalism, social housing, Southampton, Southampton City of Culture, Southampton City of Culture 2025, Southampton stories, UK City of Culture, Unity 101, Unity 101 Community Radio, Veronica Gordon
In February 2021, Solent NHS Trust commissioned Our Version Media to extend the reach of their work tackling misinformation about COVID-19 vaccination and ensure credible information reaches the region’s black British, African and Caribbean communities. Over eight weeks, we conducted…
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Tags: African Communities, African community, Africans in Southampton, black people in Hampshire, black people in Southampton, black podcast, Caribbean communities, Caribbean community, Caribbeans in Southampton, COVID podcast, covid-19, covid-19 vaccination, covid-19 vaccine, Hampshire, health inequalities, health podcast, podcast, podcast host, podcast producer, podcaster, Solent NHS Trust, Southampton, vaccination, vaccination expert, vaccination Q&A, vaccine hesitancy
As part of Our Version Media’s commitment to increasing authentic and positive representation of Southampton’s black communities, we’ve created a directory of local black-owned businesses. We invite you to take a look at the variety of black-owned businesses in the…
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Category: Southampton
Tags: African food, African restaurant, Africans in Southampton, afro hair salon, afro hair shop, black barber, black barbershop, black businesses in Southampton, black hair products, black haircare, black owned business, black pound day, braids, buy black, Caribbean food, Caribbean restaurant, Caribbeans in Southampton, ethnic food, independent businesses, Nigerian food, Nigerian restaurant, shop local, Southampton
More than three quarters (77.8%) of black Southampton residents who took part in our media survey said they do not feel fairly and accurately represented in local news coverage. The survey also revealed that 75% felt there was a negative…
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Tags: Abdoulie Sanneh, BAME, BAMER, black asian and ethnic, black asian and minority ethnic, black community, black men in southampton, black mental health, black people in Hampshire, black people in Southampton, black stories, black wellbeing, black women in Southampton, BME, consultancy, consultant, diverse stories, diversity, diversity consultant, diversity in southampton, featured, inclusion, journalist in Southampton, journalists in Southampton, media bias, media reporting tool, mobile journalism, mobile storytelling, mojo, multimedia journalist, news in Southampton, PR help, press complaint, press in Southampton, racial profiling, racism, racist stereotypes, social enterprise, Southampton, Southampton City of Culture, Southampton City of Culture 2025, Southampton stories, training, TUVAA, Veronica Gordon, videographer, videojournalist
Black History Month has been celebrated in Southampton for more than a decade. This year, because of the pandemic, most events have been moved online. Here’s the link to the city’s Black History Month magazine. It is packed full of…
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Our Version Media’s founder, Veronica Gordon, has been awarded a Black History Month South Award for her work “amplifying black voices” in Southampton. The Award was presented during the city’s official Black History Month launch, as she was co-hosting alongside…
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Tags: Africans in Southampton, amplify black voices, award winner, award winning, BAME, BHM, black community, Black History Month, Black History Month South, black journalist, black journalist in Southampton, black owned business, black people in Southampton, black stories, Caribbeans in Southampton, diverse communities, diversity, diversity in southampton, equality, ethnic communities, event host, Hampshire, inclusion, Lou Taylor, Olu Rowe, Our Version Media, radio presenter, Southampton, Southampton City of Culture, Southampton City of Culture 2025, Unity 101 Community Radio, Veronica Gordon, Vibrant Vibes, Vibrant Vibes radio show
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