Please can first years listen to Today between 8 and 8.30am on Friday 8 October for Tim’s class at 11am to noon on Monday. Identify each and every speaker in this half hour of radio news. Write down the time each piece of audio, for example an interview, starts. Note down where each piece of […]
Year 3 students can collect their Year 3 project marks and TV production marks from Nicola tomorrow (Friday) between 10am and 12noon and between 2.3pm and 4pm. MA students who took the TV Production module can also collect their marks.
As a university student, you try to find a creative outlet while away from home to cope with the day to day stress and anxiety. This year, we observed that one of the platforms is YouTube. We sometimes forget that big YouTubers like Jackie Aina, Raven Elyse, or Nyma Tang started off small. YouTube […]
Once in a blue moon, there comes an album which removes all doubt of its potential inadequacy and delights those who listen to it. Sadly, Keane haven’t quite managed to fulfill their potential. Tim Rice-Oxley may have cleaned up his act along with the rest of the “piano rock” (which is what exactly, apart from a very […]
At the Association for Journalism Education conference last week, Tim Luckhurst spoke about something we have discussed many times at the Centre for Journalism: the number of journalism degrees on offer in this country that offer their students little or no chance of getting a job within the industry. There is, he told the conference, […]
Amelia front page.jpeg Amelia Clarke, who studied for the MA with us last year, has today’s splash on the Scottish Daily Mail. She applied for – and secured – the Daily Mail newspaper traineeship while here.
Going for a picinic this summer? Looking forward to cracking open an ice cold beer or pouring a glass of wine while lazing around in the sun? Don’t you dare! An article by Rosemary Bennet and Richard Ford in today’s Times talks about the growing popularity within local councils to set up these very helpful […]
Two contrasting stories from France this morning draw attention to the state of flux in our industry and its still robust ability to challenge official orthodoxy. On the depressing side President Nicholas Sarkozy launches crisis negotations today about the future of the French newspaper industry. Amid plummeting turnover at titles including Le Monde, Liberation and Figaro, the President says […]
Today, the world celebrates the first mixed race president of the United States of America. However, despite his rhetoric, awe-inspiring speechmaking and total embodiment of the American Dream, can he deliver? Obama is expected to deliver accross the board, in the economy, in foreign policy and with social reform when it comes to race. First and foremost, […]
Year 3 students please note: we’ll be running a combined session on Monday 13 March to cover a couple of important things for your projects and for Convergent Journalism 3. We’ll go through the details of secondary pieces for your project, and then we’ll be taking a look at web analytics – including some interesting […]
Congratulations to several of our undergraduates for their success in the latest round of NCTJ shortand exams. First years Sophie Jackson and Melanie Wimmer passed at 70wpm. Danielle Cheney, Joe Cladingboel, Alex Dack , Harriet Robinson and Eva Tsipi all passed at 60wpm (Alex and Eva both scored 100% accuracy). They join James Averill, Dan May and Nicola Sturmey who […]
Hello, this is your captain speaking… Right lads, we’re looking for a couple budding football stars amongst you! A group of us third years formed a rather fine team in first year to play each week in a 7-aside PlayFootball league in Medway. We’ve been title challengers from the beginning and want to strengthen ahead […]
Our fame is spreading. So, sadly, is news about the conduct of our elected legislators. Le Monde asked for comment.
Many congratulations to our 2015 Sky News Bob Friend Scholar, Boglarka Kosztolanyi. Boglarka won the prize yesterday in stiff competition against the other shortlisted candidates: Madelaine Hanson, Adham Devenny and Evangeline Dryden. The panel, which included Dave Betts, Managing Editor of Sky News and Stephen Claypole, Chairman of DMA Media, were greatly impressed by all four shortlisted candidates and unanimous in their […]
Reports last week show the Trump’s suspension from Facebook has been extended for at least the next 6 months. Having already been banned from Twitter and YouTube, many will be rejoicing to know that they do not have to hear about his goings on. From “Covfefe” to the endless ranting about the “Fake News Media” […]
Remember, you have one transfer available before the start of Matchday 3 which is tomorrow (Saturday 15th June). You can also change your captain for Matchday 3. The transfers and captains must be made before 6:30pm! ********************************************************************************************** Like an England comeback, Jay Akbar has taken top spot from Jack Reed at the end of Matchday […]
The practice exam questions have been uploaded to module notes. Please answer one of the two questions; feel free to do both and I will mark them. Bear in mind that in the exam you will have approximately 30 minutes on each question. Please complete this assignment by next Thursday (Jan 27) Paul Attachment […]
I was going to place this as our “Pick of the Day” and then I realised it was reserved for “good journalism” so I’m putting it here instead… Today G2 and Comment is free published the ramblings of Tom Meltzer. It links nicely to all of us who are about to embark on our work […]
For multimedia journalism class the last assignment for term is related to online journalism, to create a way to showcase an interesting or relateable story through an online structure. We need to contact someone and ask to tell their story, they cannot be family or other classmates. So, who do I know that’s interesting? Matthew […]
A diligent second year (Ali ‘sharp eye’ Houghton) has just pointed out that some of the module notes for convergent journalism 2, covering the online journalism section, were not showing up for second year students. I’ve now corrected this – there are notes covering online news design, and social media and journalism. A good idea […]
New students please check your emails regularly throughout the day. Staff members will be regularly emailing you with information throughout the term. It has come to my notice that emails have gone out to students and have not been acknowledged.
There are fewer than 100 Al Qaeda insurgents in Afghanistan, with “no ability to launch attacks on either us or our allies”, according to Obama’s national security advisor. This was brought to my attention by a column in the NYT by Frank Rich.
Sue Ryan, Training Manager Daily Mail, will be visiting the Centre on 1 February at 1.00 to talk about the gradute training schemes offered by the Daily Mail. Her talk will be aimed primarily at postgraduate and third year students but students in years 1 and 2 are also welcome to attend if they are […]
The financial crisis has undoubtedly been at the forefront of everyone’s mind recently but it has finally reached fever pitch. We’ve looked at it nationally; city workers waving tenners instead of fifties at the G20 protesters, and we’ve looked locally; spending hours dwelling on the fate of Gillingham and Chatham highstreets in this devastating time. But […]
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