Building for the future
September 1, 2010 – 6:30 am | No Comment

Newspaper journalism student Alan White is the latest graduate to celebrate landing a job. Alan is joining Wates as a desktop publisher. He’ll be based in south Manchester to work on a range of projects for the building giant.

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Radio 4 opportunity for students
January 1, 2007 – 12:00 am | No Comment

The department is encouraging its budding radio journalists to enter a prestigious BBC competition. Journalism students who have studied radio as part of their course are being invited to enter the File on 4 competition, …

Graduate to pilot BBC scheme
December 21, 2006 – 9:39 am | No Comment

A journalism graduate has been chosen to pilot a new BBC scheme developing the presence of the North West Tonight news programme on the web.
James Bentley will work on a new website …

Departmental book wins external praise
December 15, 2006 – 9:23 am | No Comment

A book tipped to spark debate about the role of journalism in democracies has been edited by two members of the Journalism department.
Dr Peter Anderson and Geoff Ward have edited and written …

Sports journalism student is Blackburn Hawks first team player
December 11, 2006 – 12:37 pm | No Comment

A sports journalism student has been selected to play for the first team of local ice hockey club Blackburn Hawks.
First year student Daniel Smith, who has been granted a ìMaking a …

PNE boss grilled by students
December 5, 2006 – 2:18 pm | No Comment

Preston North End boss Paul Simpson took time out from managing his promotion-chasing side to give first year students a taste of real sports journalism.
Paul was grilled by BA Journalism and Sports …

Graduate lands Assistant Producer job at BBC Newsround
December 4, 2006 – 1:58 pm | No Comment

A graduate has secured his ìideal jobî as Assistant Producer of Children’s BBC Newsround.
Anthony Baxter will start working on the news programme in January and will spend his time finding stories for …

In action working with local authorities
November 30, 2006 – 4:33 pm | No Comment
In action working with local authorities

Journalism students have been in action again helping the local authorities test their emergency plans.
A group of 26 students took part in the exercise at Hutton police HQ.
They grilled police and …

Lecturer in China to meet students preparing to come to Preston
November 29, 2006 – 12:28 pm | No Comment

Senior Journalism Lecturer Paul Egglestone has gone to Shanghai to meet Chinese students who will study in Preston next year on a new undergraduate programme.
35 BA (Hons) Media Management students from University of …

Students explore Blackburn Rovers media facilities
November 28, 2006 – 3:51 pm | No Comment
Students explore Blackburn Rovers media facilities

The sports writers of the future trod in the footsteps of great names when students visited the media facilities at Blackburn Rovers FC.
Sports Journalism students in the final year of their three-year …

Former BBC news presenter visits departmentís broadcast students
November 27, 2006 – 11:02 am | No Comment
Former BBC news presenter visits departmentís broadcast students

A former BBC North West Tonight presenter has given news reading tips to journalism students.
Experienced broadcast journalist Martin Henfield spent the day with the postgraduates giving them feedback on their presenting skills …