Showcase: selected student work from our BA and MA programmes

Showcase: selected student work from our BA and MA programmes

Millions of Venezuelans have been forced to leave their home country. Many have found refuge 2,000 miles away in Peru.

Even though both countries don’t share a border, the Peruvian capital of Lima has become a safe haven for them.

Created by:
Kenneth Sanchez
Web

Isabel Mueller Eidhamar’s final year project was an ambitious and comprehensive study of the conflict in Cyprus which investigated the ongoing UN presence on the island.

Full project here.

Created by:
Isabel Mueller Eidhamar
Web

Indya Clayton’s third-year project was a TV documentary taking us on a personal journey to investigate why there are so few black blood donors in the UK.

Created by:
Indya Clayton
Television

Year 2 student Isabel Mueller Eidhamar’s detailed multimedia account of one of Europe’s most notorious mass killings on the Norwegian island of Utoya, as told by survivor Mari Nymoen Eikre.

An excellent interview, and great use of the Pageflow storytelling platform.

Full project here.

Created by:
Isabel Mueller Eidhamar
Web

Alice Hamilton-Beer’s fascinating story of the data behind the most intensive period of nuclear testing in American history. Alice used the ArcGIS Storymap platform to map the location of every single nuclear test between 1951 and 1980.

See full project.

Created by:
Alice Hamilton-Beer
Data

Mike’s third year documentary project is one of the best ever produced at the CfJ, and rightly won the NCTJ’s Project of the Year Award. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at the motor racing team in which injured British Services veterans aim to race at the 24 Hour Le Mans race.

Created by:
Mike Haffenden
Television

A look at the data around violent crime in London in the first half of 2018, using data collated from media reports.

Click here for full project.

Created by:
Alfie Tobutt
Data, Web

Cecily’s documentary film for her final year project takes an analytical look at the eccentric world of cosplay and the unusual characters who inhabit it.

Created by:
Cecily Snowball
Television

For her MA online assignment, Jayna Rana told the story of two brothers and their decades-long search for the sibling with whom they had lost touch for nearly 30 years.

Created by:
Jayna Rana
Flash interactive

Year students created a web site from scratch, filled it with content and found an audience for it. All in one day. And if that wasn’t enough, they also created on-the-hour radio news bulletins throughout the day

Created by:
Year 2 students
Web

Stine Wanebo’s magazine feature assignment was created in the style of National Geographic, investigating the people who act as guides on glaciers around the world.

Created by:
Stine Wannebo
Print

BA undergraduate Declan Olley’s advanced multimedia project analyses data from disciplinary reports from the UK’s rugby authorities.

Created by:
Declan Olley
Data, Web

Lydia Hamilton’s final-year TV project for her BA looked at the effects of budget cuts on funding for minority arts projects.

Created by:
Lydia Hamilton
Television

Lydia Deichmann’s final-year BA project in the style of BBC Radio’s File on Four investigates the best way to end the barbaric custom of female genital mutilation.

Created by:
Lydia Deichmann
Radio

Student teams from Years 1 and 2 combined to produced two competing newspapers in February. This is one of them.

Created by:
Year 1 and 2 BA students
Print

Year 1 and Year 2 students spent the day putting together two competing newspapers for their print newsday. The Eagle was one of them.

Created by:
Year 1 and 2 BA students
Print

Two hours of live radio, as produced by students from the BA in Journalism and the News Industry on 7 February 2014.

Created by:
Year 2 BA students
Radio

This TV news bulletin was produced by Year 2 students from the BA in Journalism and the News Industry, and went out at 5pm on Thursday 5 December.

Created by:
Year 2 BA students
Television

Huw Jenkins’ second-year interactive feature about Ellis Broome and has family, coping with a rare medical condition.

Created by:
Huw Jenkins
Flash interactive, Web

Sam Thompson’s multimedia project was to build a crowdsourced map of fans’ favourite Premiership goals.

Created by:
Sam Thompson
Data, Web

The Daily Prophet, a 24-page newspaper produced in real time on Friday 24 January by Year 3 students on the BA in Journalism and the News Industry.

Created by:
Year 3 BA students
Print

Charlotte Wahl’s interactive interview with a man who ‘borrowed’ someone else’s identity in order to get a girlfriend. Part of a final year project.

Created by:
Charlotte Wahl
Flash interactive, Web