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.
Read the full story » The division of Applied Communication has been chosen to host an annual international Public Relations conference.
The European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA) approved a proposal by the division to host …
A graduate has achieved his ambition of working in the music industry by landing a job at a PR company that manages the band Keane.
Jon Lawrence works for a music PR company …
A Course Director has been nominated for two industry awards for his work on the innovative Journalism Leaders Programme (JLP).
Francois Nel, who is the founding Programme Director of the JLP, was nominated …
A former student had extra cause for celebration at her graduation when she was handed the most promising journalism student of the year award.
Amanda Smith won the Alan Burgess award that is …
The departmentís Masters in Magazine Journalism has been accredited by the Periodicals Training Council (PTC).
Following a successful visit from Council representatives it has been given full accreditation for the next two years. …
A second year journalism student has found success through a BBC scheme aimed at helping young people with an interest in creative arts.
Alex Jackson was ecstatic after being chosen to represent …
A graduate has been offered her dream job at one of Britainís top national magazines.
Jacqui Meddings will start work at Sugar magazine as a Features Assistant less than a week after she …
An online journalism student has been offered a job at Childrenís BBC to work on its CBeebies web pages before he has even finised his course.
Dom Atherton will work as a researcher …
For the third time in four years a UCLan journalism student has beaten off stiff competition to become a trainee on the Daily Mail trainee sub-editors course.
The traineeship is run by …
Reporters from the Lancashire Evening Post have been given intensive audio-visual training by UCLanís journalism department.
In order to to aid their online content development, Senior Lecturer Andy Dickinson spent the day teaching the …