Preston gets hyperlocal news site
March 9, 2010 – 6:12 am | No Comment

Two student journalists are launching a hyperlocal news site in Preston later this month. The site www.mypreston.com is brainchild of second year Andy Halls and Joseph Stashko who is in his first year.

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New signing for student newspaper
February 11, 2010 – 6:53 am | No Comment
New signing for student newspaper

Third year newspaper journalism students have secured a guest columnist for their weekly paper. Dave Seddon filed his first column for the Preston Journal this month.

Action girl takes one giant leap
February 8, 2010 – 10:24 am | No Comment
Action girl takes one giant leap

Third year newspaper journalism student Laura Wild is taking a big leap, literally. Daredevil Laura will be doing a tandem skydive for the Springhill Hospice in Rochdale in March.

Postgrads visit national dailies
February 8, 2010 – 7:38 am | No Comment
Postgrads visit national dailies

Postgraduate newspaper journalism students spent a day visiting the newsrooms of national dailies The Daily Telegraph and Independent.

Students learn about reporting poverty
February 8, 2010 – 4:55 am | No Comment
Students learn about reporting poverty

Postgraduate journalism students have been asked to consider how they should tackle reporting poverty.

Students play major role in disaster exercise
February 5, 2010 – 7:31 am | No Comment
Students play major role in disaster exercise

Postgraduate and undergraduate journalism students have been praised by Lancashire County Council for their help with a two-day emergency exercise.

Up to speed with F1 commentator
February 5, 2010 – 5:01 am | No Comment
Up to speed with F1 commentator

BBC television’s Formula One commentator Jonathan Legard made a pitstop at UCLan to meet students on the university’s Sports Journalism course.

“Have the courage to have an attitude”
January 22, 2010 – 7:19 am | No Comment
“Have the courage to have an attitude”

Investigative journalist Andrew Jennings treated sudents from across the university’s wide range of journalism courses to an animated and lively talk about what it takes to be an investigative journalist.

Year One students pick up expert advice
January 19, 2010 – 10:51 am | No Comment
Year One students pick up expert advice

Dave Seddon, the chief football writer for the Lancashire Evening Post, paid a visit to first year journalism and sports journalism students to give students the inside track on managers he has worked with.

Top sports writer visits UCLan
December 11, 2009 – 3:42 am | No Comment
Top sports writer visits UCLan

David Conn, the Guardian’s leading writer on the business and finance of sport, visited the university to speak to students on the Sports Journalism course.

uclan journalism graduate makes his own headlines
November 9, 2009 – 7:14 am | No Comment
uclan journalism graduate makes his own headlines

Former uclan journalism graduate Mark Hughes who is crime correspondent for The Independent newspaper spent a week reporting from the streets of Baltimore.