Katie Price meets a UCLan protege
January 20, 2012 – 9:39 am | No Comment

Jessica Nightingale was star struck when she met celebrity Katie Price at a London photo call. “Honestly I really couldn’t believe my luck. It was so exciting. It was fantastic when I first saw her. I did feel star struck and had to pinch myself. I couldn’t actually believe I was there to interview her,” said the third year newspaper journalism student.

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Online graduate is new community reporter
October 23, 2006 – 10:36 am | No Comment
Online graduate is new community reporter

An MA Online Journalism graduate has become the community reporter for the Lancashire Evening Post.
Josie Hill has been offered the new position at the newspaper to encourage citizen journalism contributions to a …

Department appoints UKís first chair in digital journalism
October 19, 2006 – 3:15 pm | No Comment

The Journalism department and Johnston Press plc have appointed Professor Jane Singer as the Johnston Press Chair in Digital Journalism.
Jane, an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication …

Graduate named Reporter of the Year at BBC local radio awards
October 19, 2006 – 10:21 am | No Comment
Graduate named Reporter of the Year at BBC local radio awards

A department graduate has been crowned Reporter of the Year in a BBC local Radio award ceremony.
Nicola Rees from BBC Radio Leeds won gold at the BBC Frank Gillard Awards that are …

Freelance advice for budding magazine journalists
October 19, 2006 – 10:08 am | No Comment

The department has welcomed the return of its alumni, Liz Garment, who gave two days of guest lectures to students of magazine journalism.
Liz is a lecturer in journalism at the University …

Step Into the Real World of Magazine Journalism
October 17, 2006 – 10:14 am | No Comment

Loraine Davies, the director of Periodicals Training Council, visited magazine students to give them an insight into the magazine industry.
Having rushed from London and escaping her hectic schedule, Loraine began her talk …

Scholarship to attend European journalism conference
October 17, 2006 – 9:25 am | No Comment

A final year broadcast student has returned from a European journalism conference in Athens after she won a scholarship to attend.
Lorna Blount went to the ì1st Euro Mediterranean Journalism Instituteî conference that …

Student beats world champion at pool
October 13, 2006 – 1:54 pm | No Comment

A student has told how he challenged snooker No1 Stephen Hendry to a match on the green baize – and won.
Final year print student and journalist for the News and Star newspaper …

Postgraduate student wins ìNews Idolî competition
October 11, 2006 – 5:11 pm | No Comment
Postgraduate student wins ìNews Idolî competition

A UCLan postgraduate student has won a competition to be a newsreader for the newly launched LEP TV.
Rachel Murray and four other Postgraduate Broadcast Journalism students came across a billboard advertising the …

First year already a sporting success
October 10, 2006 – 11:13 am | No Comment
First year already a sporting success

First year journalism student James Gordon already has a portfolio that most people would be proud of.
He may only be 18-years-old but already he owns and runs his own rugby league website, …

Students cover mock nuclear disaster to test their skills
October 9, 2006 – 12:53 pm | No Comment

Postgraduate journalism students have taken part in a mock disaster at Sellafield nuclear plant to test to how they would react in a real life situation.
Broadcast and print students were part of …