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FAO All students - Please return all kit asap, deadline thurs 30th May. sticky icon

Your friendly neighbourhood Multimedia Newsroom Technician needs to audit our CFJ equipment and account for broken, missing and otherwise absent parts.

PLEASE could ALL students return all kit no later than THURSDAY 30th MAY to Gerardo (only).

You need to ensure that all parts are present (hopefully correct) and it is essential that you check in your own kit - I cannot accept equipment returned on behalf of other students.

Last Medwire of the Year

The last copy of the year is here for your viewing pleasure. There are also paper copies in the newsroom and be delighted if you'd like to take a few off my hands, seeing as I have about a thousand of the things.

 

Year One: Local Government Planning handout now available

Notes from the lecture on planning now available. Paul

Internship

Here's one worth looking at: 

http://www.flintoff.org/wanted-intern

This explains what kind of things he does:

http://www.flintoff.org/john-paul-flintoff-journalist

Richard

 

Shorthand Exam Rooms

23 May 90wpm PK104

24 May 100wpm PK104

6 June 60, 80wpm PK130

7 June 100, 120wpm PK130

16 June 80, 100wpm PK130

Research seminar series

We are starting a research seminar series and the first presentation is on May 29 at 12pm in the undergraduate newsroom. I will be speaking on "Pleasure and Political Participation in Green Lifestyle Journalism". All welcome.

We will also have Sarah presenting on June 26 at 1pm and Tim on November 27 at 1pm and speakers in other months. More details later.

Year One NCTJ Public Affairs - latest handout

The handout on local government finance is now available in module notes under NCTJ Public Affairs. Paul

Yr 3 Advanced Multimedia Storytelling revision session

I'll do a brief revision session for Year 3 students immediately after your convergent journalism revision session tomorrow morning on Tuesday 14 May (tomorrow).

Work experience showcase

The Kent Messenger's pages were stuffed with stories by Centre for Journalism students during April and May - including bylines on the front and back pages. Here's 10 of the best of them. 

 

Placements are available to every student at the end of their first year, giving them two weeks of reporting experience on a major regional newspaper.

New and improved Reporting Conflict module notes

Following our MA and Year 3 revision sessions, I have added a little material to module notes that may help for the Reporting Conflict exams. 

There is now a link to the Channel 4 documentary Sri Lanka's Killing Fields at the end of the module note for the Arab Spring UGC seminar. The full title of this module note is as follows: