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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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.
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.
Postgraduate newspaper journalism students spent a day visiting the newsrooms of national dailies The Daily Telegraph and Independent.
Postgraduate journalism students have been asked to consider how they should tackle reporting poverty.
Postgraduate and undergraduate journalism students have been praised by Lancashire County Council for their help with a two-day emergency exercise.
BBC television’s Formula One commentator Jonathan Legard made a pitstop at UCLan to meet students on the university’s Sports Journalism course.
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.
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.
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.
Former uclan journalism graduate Mark Hughes who is crime correspondent for The Independent newspaper spent a week reporting from the streets of Baltimore.
A senior national newspaper executive takes a look at chequebook journalism in the latest Harris Journalism lecture. Nicholas Pyke, associate editor of the Mail on Sunday looks behind the buy-up and kiss ‘n’ tells at 1pm Mobnday 8 March in the Foster Lecture Theatre.
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