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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Sports journalism student to work for athletics governing body
May 24, 2007 – 9:26 am | No Comment
Sports journalism student to work for athletics governing body

A student set to graduate from the first sports journalism course at UCLan has already been offered her first job.
Emma Pickles will work as a Communications Officer for UK Athletics, the national …

Former student is head of BAFTA winning news team
May 21, 2007 – 12:44 pm | No Comment
Former student is head of BAFTA winning news team

Granadaís Head of News and former postgraduate student Richard Frediani is celebrating a historic BAFTA win for the ITV regional news programme.
The Granada news team beat BBC’s Ten OíClock News, Channel Four …

Students’ Polish documentary
May 17, 2007 – 10:26 am | No Comment
Students’ Polish documentary

Two final year broadcast students have filmed a documentary in Poland after it was commissioned as part of a university project by Granada.
Simon Turner and Pete Waters pitched their idea to …

Journalism Leader Director to speak at World Editors Forum
May 15, 2007 – 3:13 pm | No Comment

The Journalism Leaders Programme Director, Francois Nel, has been invited to speak at the 14th World Editors Forum in Cape Town.
Francois, who was the first academic to become a member of the …

Student works for US national news channel
May 4, 2007 – 3:28 pm | No Comment
Student works for US national news channel

A broadcast student has spent three weeks working for a US national television news channel in New York.
Bea Asare-Djan made the most of the work placement opportunity on her MA Broadcast Journalism …

Sky Sports masterclass
May 3, 2007 – 9:59 am | No Comment

Third year sports journalism students have been given a privileged insight into the workings of television outside broadcasts.
Eddie Hemmings and Neville Smith from Sky Sports gave a masterclass in commentating, presenting and …

Travelogue update from IstanbulÖ
April 26, 2007 – 3:09 pm | No Comment
Travelogue update from IstanbulÖ

Paul Elmer has returned from the historic city of Istanbul where he worked with researchers and students of public relations.
One result is a joint research project, together with Dr Candan Celik of …

Granadaís Head of News returns after BAFTA nomination
April 24, 2007 – 4:22 pm | No Comment

Head of Granada News and former postgraduate student Richard Frediani has returned to UCLan after the regional news programme was nominated for a BAFTA award.
Richard, who graduated from UCLan in 1990 with …

Training leads to permanent jobs at Sun
April 17, 2007 – 4:09 pm | No Comment
Training leads to permanent jobs at Sun

Three UCLan graduates awarded places on a prestigious training scheme at The Sun newspaper have now all been given permanent jobs on the paper.
Andrew Ewart, Mark Hudson and Dean Scoggins will work …

Next Journalism Leaders Forum announced
April 16, 2007 – 3:28 pm | No Comment
Next Journalism Leaders Forum announced

ìEditors as Entrepreneursî is the theme for the next Journalism Leaders Forum that will be chaired by Bob Eggington who established BBC news online.
His fellow panellists are the co-founder and director of …