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March 15, 2012 – 3:19 am |

Journalism and the Internet have a complicated relationship. While opening up the world to news content and sources it has been blamed for much of the decline in revenues at news organisations. Project MADE from …

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Students visit top BBC sports team at Media City

November 9, 2011 – 10:29 am |
Students visit top BBC sports team at Media City

By ALISON WHITFIELD
A group of twenty Sports Journalism students from the University of Central Lancashire headed to Salford for a visit to BBC TV at Media City. The event was organised by the team behind Sports Personality …

Times Art Director visits UCLan magazine students

October 27, 2011 – 7:46 am |
Times Art Director visits UCLan magazine students

Tom Reynolds has had a prolific 30-year-career as an Art Director working for publications such as New Scientist, the Radio Times, the Sunday Express Magazine and the Sunday Times Magazine.  So, when he holds up …

UCLan magazine students dominate digital awards

October 20, 2011 – 8:33 am |
UCLan magazine students dominate digital awards

UCLan’s magazine journalists networking at the premium annual awards ceremony for periodicals training were given a pleasant shock by hearing their magazine websites had been nominated for the 2011 New Digital Concept award. They had …

Radio bosses praise student broadcasters

October 20, 2011 – 4:50 am |
Radio bosses praise student broadcasters

Students from UCLan’s Sports Journalism course were among the winners when the Commonwealth Youth Games were staged on the Isle of Man.
A group of eight students teamed up with the island’s national broadcaster, Manx Radio, …

Students go live on Manx Radio

September 7, 2011 – 7:19 am |
Students go live on Manx Radio

A group of eight students from UCLan’s Sports Journalism course is heading for the Isle of Man to provide live coverage of the Commonwealth Youth Games. They will be working with the island’s leading radio …

Lauren signs on for IPC

July 12, 2011 – 5:39 am |
Lauren signs on for IPC

Postgraduate magazine journalism student Lauren O’Callaghan is celebrating landing a job before her course finishes. The uclan student has fought off tough competition to secure one of the two places on IPC’s graduate editorial training scheme at its Blue Fin headquarters in London.

Making news summer school

July 11, 2011 – 7:05 am |
Making news summer school

Interested in Journalism? Always wanted to go behind the scenes of a radio station? See yourself as a programme maker, presenter, and reporter? If the answer to all those is Yes then join us and the BBC at our unique 4 day summer school.

The Sun shines on Uclan students

June 21, 2011 – 7:00 am |
The Sun shines on Uclan students

Britain’s biggest national daily is taking on two uclan students as graduate trainees. Andy Snell and Andy Halls join The Sun in August. “I’m delighted to have been given the opportunity to work for the best newspaper in Britain. I’ve always dreamt of working for a national, going straight from University is a dream come true. “The Sun produces the world’s best journalists, so to work side-by-side with them is a fantastic moment for me,” said Andy Halls who graduates in July.

Postgraduate journalism advice day

May 31, 2011 – 9:27 am |
Postgraduate journalism advice day

We’re holding our annual Postgraduate Advice afternoon on Saturday 11 June. So if you’re interested in a career in newspapers, magazines, broadcast or international journalism drop by and have a chat with our staff in the Greenbank Building on our Preston campus.

BROADCAST POST GRADUATE WINS SKY NEWS COMPETITION

May 13, 2011 – 5:42 am |

MA Broadcast Journalism post graduate student Cristina Garlington has just won first prize in the Sky News Royal Wedding Student Video Competition.