Slides are part of the Making Media book and course at the University of Amsterdam.

1. Making Media:
Production, Practices and Professions
• workforce diversity
• advertising
• journalism
#makingmedia

5. • informal workplace
• lack of workforce diversity
• worker interdependence
• …

9. “What do I think? I think you’re all fucking
mad. Deranged. So disengaged from reality
it’s not even funny. It’s a fucking TV
commercial. Nobody give a shit … I’ve come
to the conclusion that the whole thing was a
bit of a con. A scam. An elaborate hoax.”

10. “If you're reading this while sitting in some
darkened studio or edit suite agonizing over
whether Housewife A should pick up the
soap powder with her left hand or her right,
do yourself a favor. Power down. Lock up
and go home and kiss your wife and kids.”

15. Tamara Witschge
t.a.c.witschge@rug.nl
www.rug.nl/staff/t.a.c.witschge

20. news that matters
making it work
stories from the heart

21. stories from the heart

22. “Yes, I am really happy now. I would not
want to go back to an employment contract,
to be honest. It is much more fun to be part
of this club of young rebels than to be
working in a newsroom, I really do not feel
like doing that anymore.”

23. making it work

26. “Perhaps it sounds corny but it just makes
me happy to start the day together, to work
together and also hang out.”

28. news that matters