Postgrads visit national dailies
February 8, 2010 – 7:38 am | No Comment

Postgraduate newspaper journalism students spent a day visiting the newsrooms of national dailies The Daily Telegraph and Independent.

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Student celebrates clean sweep of Press Gazette Awards
July 6, 2007 – 3:26 pm | No Comment
Student celebrates clean sweep of Press Gazette Awards

Journalism student Mark Hughes has won a clean sweep of awards at this yearís Press Gazette Student Journalism Awards.
The awards, described by ITV News Presenter Chris Rogers as ìthe one award watched …

Graduate to work with Donny Osmond
July 6, 2007 – 10:31 am | No Comment

A graduate has landed a job with the BBC working on a new game show with seventies teenage pop idol Donny Osmond.
Ciara Emmott is a runner on a game show called Identity …

Broadcast taster for school children
July 5, 2007 – 10:12 am | No Comment
Broadcast taster for school children

The Journalism department has given primary school children a taste of broadcasting by facilitating a ìUniversity Dayî for them.
Pupils from St Francis Primary School in Goosnargh, Preston, spent the morning learning about …

Student reports for Preston FM
July 3, 2007 – 10:24 am | No Comment

A first year combined honours student has got his first experience of broadcast journalism by working on Prestonís community radio station.
Mark Bentley is a mature student studying Journalism with Film and Media. …

Prize-winning PR consultancy
July 2, 2007 – 9:23 am | No Comment
Prize-winning PR consultancy

What do trendy gift shop Utility, the Chorley Disabled Forum and UK Council for Health Informatics Professionals all have in common?
They have all been clients of UK Progress, the prize-winning PR consultancy …

Eight students nominated for Press Gazette awards
June 26, 2007 – 11:56 am | No Comment
Eight students nominated for Press Gazette awards

Eight students from the journalism department have been nominated in the Press Gazette Student Journalism Awards.
Mark Hughes, who has just completed a BA (Hons) Journalism degree, is up for the Student News …

GCSE pupils learn about broadcast journalism
June 18, 2007 – 11:41 am | No Comment
GCSE pupils learn about broadcast journalism

Potential journalists of the future have visited UCLan to learn about broadcast journalism.
16 year 10 pupils from Pleckgate High School in Blackburn visited the Journalism Department as part of their GCSE Media …

Postgraduate is Merseyside Sports Writer of the Year
June 11, 2007 – 10:07 am | No Comment
Postgraduate is Merseyside Sports Writer of the Year

A former postgraduate student has been voted Sports Writer of the Year at a Merseyside media awards bash.
Dominic King, who works at the Liverpool Echo, received the accolade at the Merseyside Media …

Johnston Press Chair wins ethics award
June 5, 2007 – 1:51 pm | No Comment

The Johnston Press Chair in Digital Journalism, Professor Jane Singer, has won an award for an article she wrote on the role of journalists’ in new media.
The Clifford G. Christians Ethics …

Former student joins Manchester TV breakfast show
May 30, 2007 – 10:30 am | No Comment

A former postgraduate student has got a job on a Manchester television news channelís breakfast show immediately after finishing his course.
Gordon Newell is a Journalist and Contents Editor for Channel M, a …