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Hansard is looking for new parliamentary reporters! Applications are open from 29 October until 12 November.
Charlie Browne
Hansard reporting in a pandemic: nine changes in nine months
It's about nine months since MPs began to participate in business in the Commons Chamber via video link. Here are a few things that have changed for us (and for your reading experience) in that time.
Hansard: virtual Select Committees
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Charlie Browne and Jennifer Hilder, Posted on:
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Digital, Reporting, Select Committees, Technology, Workplace Culture
Video conferencing has become a big part of working for a lot of people during lockdown. In this post, we share some of our formative experiences of reporting a virtual Parliament.
Hansard in the time of coronavirus
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Charlie Browne, Posted on:
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Digital, Reporting, Technology, Workplace Culture
Like everyone in the world in these times of social distancing, Hansard staff are having to find ways of working differently to get our job done. We want to share with you how that experience is going.
Hansard: preparing for a general election
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Charlie Browne, Posted on:
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General election, Reporting, Training and Development, Workplace Culture
General elections present Hansard staff with a big challenge that is essential to the job: committing to memory the names and faces of all new MPs.
Hansard: a marathon and a sprint
Believe it or not, Hansard reporters are all-round athletes. This post explains why we need stamina, speed and teamwork to get our job done.
Meet the users: Hansard at Huddersfield
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Charlie Browne, Posted on:
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Collaboration culture, Digital, Historical content, Technology
Academics at the University of Huddersfield have embarked on a project using Hansard's content. One lucky Hansard reporter attended the team's end-user meeting in London to find out more.
In with the old, in with the new
The relationship between digital and any other format of art, communication and production is often presented as one of conflict. Hansard is proof that it doesn’t have to be that way. But what does a Ben Stiller film have to do with it?
Hansard by numbers
It’s Hansard’s sixth blog post, so we're going to give you six interesting (we think they are) Hansard stats. That’s right. Numbers.
Hansard: bookcamp
We don't expect you to know it all already when you join Hansard. Find out how our postgraduate diploma in parliamentary reporting equips new reporters for a job like no other.