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Canadiens continue to dominate NHL playoffs

CanadiensGm4.jpeg Canadiens continue to dominate NHL playoffs     Eleven games into this year’s playoffs, the North Division fourth seed Montreal Canadiens are 8-3 – including three OT wins.    Surely no one predicted this kind of run from the team that entered the NHL Playoffs with the lowest points in the regular season with […]

The FT’s Paul McClean Graduate Trainee Programme

This is a really good opportunity for people interested in global affairs and financial journalism – starting in September. Applications close 28 February. The FT says it encourages international applications.   https://aboutus.ft.com/en-gb/careers/graduate-schemes-and-internships/ed…      

Visit from Eddie Botsio, Executive Producer at BBC World News – Weds 25th March

Acclaimed TV journalist and Executive Producer at BBC World News Eddie Botsio has kindly agreed to come to meet students for a Q & A session on Wednesday 25 March (lunchtime).  Eddie is the BBC editorial lead for the current season of ‘What’s Up Africa’, a co-production between the BBC and Radio Netherland Worldwide (RNW). […]

Into a Closed World

The top leader in today’s Times celebrates the Justice Secretary’s decision to open family courts to reporters. This is a crucial reform, long overdue and of significance to all who care about freedom of speech and a journalist’s duty to hold power to account. Of course, the main beneficiaries will be families, for whom future risk […]

Job opportunity @ Intellygence

A television consultancy called “Intellygence” have a vacancy available which would suit someone who has completed a masters in Journalism. Company information: Intellygence is a television consultancy working in strategy and content for leading broadcasters around the world. For more information visit: http://intellygence.co.uk/ Location: Hammersmith, London Job Description: They are looking for a talented writer to […]

Legend visits Centre

Chris Moncrieff, veteran former political editor of the Press Association, enthralled students in the Centre today with tales from his fifty years as a frontline political reporter. He recalled how he broke the news of Margaret Thatcher’s resignation, ended the Gulf War five minutes early because his clock was fast and watched Denis Thatcher feed a bun to the wrong end […]

NPLP: Season 2, Episode 7 – Spameritanlish

A couple of new managers are in town, and so NPLP follows suit by installing Jack as their interim presenter (Bill has not been sacked, he was busy in Canterbury trying to learn how to be funny). Jack is joined by Sam and Dec and they make sense of all this weekend’s Premier League action. […]

Timed reporting test for year 2

There will be a timed news writing test for Reporting and Writing II in the newsroom from 2pm to 3pm tomorrow. The test includes a verbal statement at 100wpm which needs to be taken down so make sure you bring notepaper and a pen. It is worth 20% of the final mark for the module.

Travel grant for aspiring radio journalists (!!!!)

All you aspiring Hemingways and Graham Greenes…here’s your chance.    Every year, in partnership with BBC Radio 4, the Royal Geographical Society give someone £5,000 to make their dream journey – anywhere in the world – and record their adventure for a Radio 4 documentary.   They are looking for aspiring journalists with a passion […]

BBC RTS Huw Wheldon Lecture

Hello everyone, I hope you’re all having a good summer! 🙂 I got an email yesterday about this and it looks quite interesting and thought I would let everyone know about it:   http://bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/shows/huw_wheldon_lecture_2012 It’s the Friday of the week we start term and is London so is easy to get to. I’ll be going […]

Upcoming events

I wanted to alert/remind you of some upcoming events that might be of interest. Firstly  on Monday there is a discussion at the LSE on the future of public service broadcasting – which might be of particular use for certain second year essays!! – details are below. Secondly  next Wednesday there are the Schork awards […]

Eliot Higgins talk for students: new date is 12 November

All students are welcome to come to hear Eliot Higgins in the undergraduate newsroom on Tuesday, 12 November at 1pm.  Do please put this date in your diary. The talk was originally scheduled for 5 November. Eliot is better known as the blogger Brown Moses. He is totally untrained as a journalist. But has made […]

Match reporting opportunity

Fans of the table-topping Maidstone United Under-21s have been unable to read about their team’s fine run of form this season… until now. Josh Margrie-Rouse’s match report was published on the MUFC website today, after seven sports journalism students attended last nights’ Kent derby against Margate. And more of the students’ work may feature in […]

Self-censorship and climate change

THE asked me to write about self-censorship by journalists and their editors following the leak of e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic research unit.  You can read my column here  

5 reasons

A quick list of the 5 reasons, why a journalism student would want to write for a student newspaper. Maybe this last thing, will push some of you to join up.    Five reasons why you should write for your student newspaper.

Come to the Best Ever Student Journalism Conference, #SPANC17!

A friendly reminder that tickets for this year’s Student Publication Assocation National Conference will be closing for sales on April 18th at 6pm. What’s the Student Publication Association National Conference I hear you cry? Well, only the conference with the best hashtag in the world, #SPANC17. It’s a weekend long event of student journalists from across […]

Staffer’s blog

The roles for Friday’s radio news day are: Editors: Lucy Ross-Millar and Kelsey Williams Exec team: Alan McGuinness and Jaak Pardi Assessed reporters: Beckah Floyd, Alex Fisk, James Woodcock, Zehra Mullick, Nick Poskitt, Mylo Wilkin, Stuart Wilson News team: Becci Hughes, Kat Cain, Rob Hayes, John Saunders

If Gordon Brown tweeted…

Civil servants and ministers have been advised on how to use Twitter. In light of this I wondered what Gordon Brown would tweet if he was on Twitter…

TheMedwire.co.uk launched!

I am very proud to present Universities at Medway’s first online news source! The Medwire is now online! themedwire.co.uk  

Year 3 online newsday roles

The roles for next Friday’s assessed online newsday for year 3 are as follows: Editors: Molly Pike, Mara Podaru, Christine Stokes Executives: Jemma Collins, Laura Griffiths, Josh Morl, Emily Magdij Assessed reporters: Sam Thompson, Chris Walker, Bill Topping, Declan Olley, Clarissa Place, Kirsten Ringelmann, Lauren Clarke, Dan Sampayo, Mhairi Beveridge, Matt Charles, Rikki Clarke, Lydia […]

Live Premier League football – West Brom v Chelsea

Premier League: West Brom 0-3 Chelsea (17.30pm): The Hawthorns FULL-TIME                         Bosingwa 34                         Anelka 38, 45+1 West Brom: Carson; Zuiverloon, Meite (Donk 67), Olsson, Robinson; Koren, Morrison (Texeira 57), Greening, Valero; Miller, Bednar (Kim 46). Subs: Kiely, Cech, Brunt, Kim, Moore, Texeira, Donk. Chelsea: Cudicini; Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Terry, Bridge; Lampard, Mikel, Deco, Kalou (Ballack 67); Anelka (Drogba […]

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