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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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.
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.
Award winning newspaper journalism graduate Mark Hughes has been shortlisted for a national prize. Mark who is crime reporter for The Independent exchanged places with his counterpart on the Baltimore Sun last year.
A leading design director has given the thumbs up to magazines produced by postgraduate journalism students. After casting a critical eye over their work Haymarket’s Paul Harpin told students, “I have a feeling this is an Ivy class.”
The School of Journalism, Media and Communication, is holding a special week of talks by the UK’s top journalists. Geordie Greig, editor of the London Evening Standard and former editor of Tatler kicks of “A future for our media” (1-4 March 2010).
An award-winning magazine created by a postgraduate journalism student is on the newsstands. Wild, a children’s wildlife title, is in the February 26 subscriber edition of Dennis Publishing’s popular news magazine, The Week.
A group of former newspaper journalism students plan to stage a reunion this summer. The organisers are Sunday Express night editor Andy Holban, Liverpool Daily Post editor Mark Thomas and former Manchester Evening News staffer Andrew Nott who runs his own PR and publishing outfit Clear Publications.
An impressive line-up of speakers is exploring contemporary ethical issues in the media with undergraduate journalism students. Professor Chris Frost of Liverpool John Moores university kicked off the series of guest lectures.
Broadcast journalism lecturer Mike Green has won a BBC award. Mike, who has trained some of the industry’s leading broadcasters, received the corporation’s Connect and Create Partnership Award for Achievement.
Postgraduate journalism students at UCLan are anything but lost for words, when it comes to shorthand. They gained the 100wpm gold standard at first attempt in this month’s NCTJ exam. Three reached 100% accuracy.
The School of Journalism, Media and Communication is holding a postgraduate day on Saturday 12 June 2010. To pre-register email classhelp@uclan.ac.uk or telephone 01772 893118
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