There is a rally being held on Thursday 17th May in Westminster regarding media reform.  There will be several high profile speakers including the ever popular Mr Hugh Grant.  The rally is to voice views about what a democratic and accountable media means.  It should be an interesting meeting. For more information visit http://mediareform.org.uk/events/rally-for-media-reform  I have reserved […]

DAVID AND NICK. Not quite the biblical story, but is it all getting a bit embarrassing already? The press conference that Cameron and Clegg held at 14:15 today was absolutely vital. It was to send a message out to the world, that a coalition government formed out of a first past the post system could […]

The Year 2 NCTJ Law revision sessions are: May 12th 1000 – 1200 and May 19th 1000 – 1200 both in Room M1 – 22. The MAs NCTJ Law revision session is May 17th 1000 – 1200 in Room M0 – 02.

I am watching the Leveson Inquiry and as I type the McCann’s are giving evidence. The press it seems had no ethics or morals when it came to this case – they have broken defamation and contempt laws repeatedly, misinformed the public constantly, clearly invaded the McCann’s privacy and even fabricated stories. For what end? […]

All years please note that revision classes have been scheduled for the Summer term.  These have been entered on the website calendar so please look at this to see what, when and where revision classes are being held.  They may not necessarily be in the room in which they were normally timetabled.    

A bunch of keys  has been found in one of the kit bags (blue Garrison key and two smaller ones plus a white cat with Marie written on).

Is coverage of Britain’s new coalition politics hitting the mark? Are old editorial habits, more applicable to left/right polarity, proving less than ideal in the ConDem Nation? Kevin Marsh of the BBC College of Journalism started a debate about this last week on his blog. I decided to take it on in my column for The Independent. What do […]

As I shall not be in after 2pm on Friday afternoon to collect your work for Richard, please put one copy (in plastic folder) in the drop in box which is situated in the Medway building, to the left of the entrance opposite the Reception desk.  The building closes at 9pm.    

And deprives us all of the public space created by good, clear verbal communication.  So wrote Tony Judt, the brilliant historian who died last week, aged 62, of motor neurone disease in a final essay published in today’s Guardian. It advances the most passionate argument for the teaching and deployment of rich, plain English since […]

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THERE will be NO revision class on Thursday 31st as had been scheduled. Paul

Are we going to hear any time soon when the second reporting conflict essay is due as the first week of January has now passed and there has been no word?

We managed to look at everyone’s timetables and we figured the best day to play this game will be Friday 9th November at 4:00pm. It will be on the Hillyfields Community Park in Gillingham, but if everyone meets in the newsroom, whether you are playing or you want to watch, at 3:30, then we can walk there […]

Please note there will be no conference for year 1 and 2 students on Friday morning.

For any of you interested in Global Health issues, this competition may be of interest to you:  http://blog.results.org.uk/2011/09/30/student-journalism-competition-delegation-to-south-africa/ 

Log on in the normal way at a PC: My computer Drop down menu: Tools: Map network drive You need to map the drive on the PC in the radio booth to upload your audio (this also works for video files). In Folder box, type:  \audioplayoutuploads. Click on Connect using a different user name in […]

With under a month until Euro 2012 we’ve decided to set up a fantasy league. We would love any first years, second years, third years, MA students and even lecturers to join in and see who is the master of Euro 2012. If you are interested, please visit: http://en.euro2012fantasy.uefa.com/ Then set up an account, create […]

Today’s Independent carries a news report about Steve Mitchell’s comments at the Centre for Journalism.  You can read the article here. Note the generous references to the University of Kent, the Centre for Journalism and to John Saunders for asking the question that sparked Steve’s observations.  Ian Burrell, media editor of the Independent, read John’s story on our […]

Good to see Drew’s blog entry about tweeting from the Stephen Lawrence trial. If you go to the College of Journalism site on bbc.co.uk you can read more from Phillipa Thomas and analysis from other BBC journalists. It’s transforming court reporting.

After Tuesday’s introduction and seeing some of my class mates using it, I’ve decided to take a leap of faith and begin my contribution to the site this week. I know that it includes a huge amount of stereotypes and does not represent how journalism works in the real world, but HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’ always […]

The following students will go on work experience placements to the KM Group during the Easter Vacation: Jay Akbar, Peter Brown, Frances Christian-Acquaah, Anica Colbert, Michel’le Donnelly, Anthony Dunkley, Jessica Fleig, Clare Freeman, Huw Griffith, Alexander Maitland, Scott Mitchell, Tiia Mustonen, Tim New, Chloe Oram, Jemma Rogers, Tom Rowse, Tania Steere, Harley Tamplin, Agatha Yuen.  The following […]

Don’t forget there is no NCTJ law teaching tomorrow. There’s a Court Reporting test paper on the website – please access it and complete ready for next Friday.

About the Twitter thing. I think I’m with Jon Stewart on this one. The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Twitter Frenzy Daily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things w/ Demetri Martin Political HumorJim Cramer

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