{"id":879,"date":"2011-01-10T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=879"},"modified":"2011-01-07T21:31:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T20:31:33","slug":"press-at-the-ou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"Press at the OU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/dog-ate-homework.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"dog ate homework\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/dog-ate-homework-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0OU has produced many newspapers and magazines over the years. One of them was aimed at staff and students within Social Sciences. It ran\u00a0between 1998-2010 in print format and according to the person who edited every edition, Dick Skellington, it sought<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>to engage readers with those realities which make up everyday life. It has championed the involvement of students themselves, questioned government and academic dogma, informed readers of our curriculum and research priorities, and provided a diverse array of short and informative, often amusing, stories, all embellished by fine photographs and illustrations plus contributions from our two highly talented student cartoonists<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an example of the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/catherinepain.co.uk\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/catherinepain.co.uk');\">Catherine Pain<\/a>\u00a0a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/dog-ate-homework.jpg\" ><\/a> cartoonist For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/socialsciences\/about-the-faculty\/society-matters\/society-matters.php\" >Society Matters <\/a>and now one for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/platform\/blogs\/guest-columnist\" >Open University Community Online Platform<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/dog-ate-homework-2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-881\" title=\"dog ate homework 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/dog-ate-homework-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0OU has produced many newspapers and magazines over the years. One of them was aimed at staff and students within Social Sciences. It ran\u00a0between 1998-2010 in print format and according to the person who edited every edition, Dick Skellington, it sought to engage readers with those realities which make up everyday life. It has championed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}