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Shortlisted candidates for 2016 Bob Friend Scholarship

Many thanks to every student who submitted an entry to this year’s competition. The standard was exceptional. However, the panel has reached a unanimous decsision. The shortlisted candidates who will travel to London on Wednesday for interview and test are, in alphabetical order:  Sarah Boast; Duarte Dias; Lauren Meechan; George Nixon and Lucy Norris. Detailed […]

Journalism: I’ll race you to the bottom

It’s always baffled me. From the recent exposé of Victorian-like conditions at Sports Direct to exploited fruit pickers in Chartham, journalism has long been a champion of highlighting injustice — and quite rightly so. But when it comes to the treatment of its own workforce, the motherly embrace reporters often display for those at the bottom […]

Blue-prints for plastic ‘Liberator’ gun to be published online

The world’s first plastic gun has been successfully fired in Texas.                 The small plastic hand gun, or ‘Liberator’, which was made on a second-hand 3D plastic printer, is made entirely of 15 ABS plastic pieces and a ‘DIY nail’ firing pin. Defense Distributed, the group which developed and […]

My First Football Match

Picture this: a huge circle mostly filled with men all dressed the same and chanting to bring luck to their gods. No this isn’t a cult. This is a premier league football match. IMG_20200216_150834.JPG Image: One smiley rained on girl ready for her first Arsenal match.   I went to my first premier league football […]

Students Given Chance to Grill NUJ

Students at the Centre for Journalism will be given the chance to learn about the National Union of Journalists during a Question and Answer session held this week Sarah Kavanagh, Senior Campaigns and Committee Officer for the NUJ, will talk about the organisation’s role in the news industry on Wednesday 29th January in G1-05, between […]

Lessons from the enemy: Things I learnt working in social media marketing

Okay, confession time…    I worked in social media for a year before coming to the University of Kent. I not only worked “in social media”, I worked in social media marketing, a close cousin of every journalism lecturer’s living nightmare: Public Relations. I was working for a growing media agency, Manning Gottlieb OMD, which is […]

NEWSDAY TEAM B ROLES UPDATED

Editor – Zehra Mullick Deputy Editor/Picture Editor – Rebecca Hughes Alan McGuinness – Foreign News Editor James Woodcock – Home News Editor (National and Local) James Averill – Sports Editor Jason West – Business Editor Production Team – Jonathan Stone and Jaak Pardi Kelsey Williams – Sub/breaking news tracker Sarah Malm – Opinion and Debate […]

Will the media ever learn?

So for the second time this year, union led strikes and protests will be dominating the country and of course the News Agenda across media outlets tomorrow. Again, for the second time this year, the press so far has been extremely negative and unfair towards those who plan to strike. Teachers are going to make up […]

Now it is all coming out

After John Terry has his super-injunction overturned last week, The Daily Telegraph has revealed the identity of the Premier League manager seen leaving a brothel in December last year. http://telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/news/7151797/Avram-Grant-Premier-League-bosss-brothel-visit.html Of course as with John Terry, Avram Grant’s name has been all over the internet which is probably why the Telegraph decided to publish. What […]

Shorthand Champions League wk5

The group stages of the Shorthand Champions League reach their thrilling finale this morning. Going into the final round of fixtures all eyes will be on Group E, where Thomas, Ile, Matt and Tom are involved in a four-way scrap for the two qualification places. In Group D Andrew and Mirela have a showdown for […]

Pipe down, Sontag.

Fearing permanent screen-burned retinas from this 24/7 course, I made the decision last week to purchase a manual stills camera. A dusty relic turned tangible hobby – loading film, metering the light, crossing your fingers and hoping that the developed film won’t just be 36 exposures of inky black.   Screen Shot 2019-04-07 at 15.45.38.png […]

Start your career at the KM group – Trainee Multimedia Reporter, Medway

Love breaking news? Fancy starting your career at the UK’s only genuine multimedia company? This could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. KM Media Group is one of the UK’s biggest independent publishers and now we are looking for a reporter with a thirst for news to join our team at Medway. Our portfolio […]

Top ten tinder bios

According to its website, “Tinder is the fun way to connect with new and interesting people around you”…and indeed it is. After being lured by friends, I finally gave in and downloaded the apparently ‘hilarious’ dating app named Tinder. For those of you who haven’t yet experienced the wonderful array of potential lifetime partners waiting for […]

My Favourite Crime Documentaries

(Unfortunately, the trailers originally embedded in this post are too heavy to put here, so check out my original post on my blog with all the images and videos! I swear it looks better than here 🙂 )   Before we even start, NO! I have finished neither the Madeleine McCann or the Ted Bundy […]

Reporting and Writing 2

Year 2 students please note times and locations of Reporting and Writing 2 for Thursdays and Fridays in the Spring term: Thursday: 14.00 – 16.00 in Newsroom Friday: 12.00 – 13.00 in G3-03 and 13.00 – 14.00 in G4-03    

London Film Festival Reviews

Last weekend, I was fortunate enough to attend some press screenings for the London Film Festival. Although I was only allowed access to one day, the films I did get to see were fantastic. The entire festival, which began on the 15th of October, will end with the Awards Ceremony and closing gala on Sunday […]

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