The Bob Friend Scholarship is the biggest prize available to first year students on the BA in Journalism.  It reimburses the winner’s first year tuition fee (UK/EU rate) and provides a month-long, funded work placement at Sky News.  Competition is fierce. So, what do you have to do to win? Applicants must provide, by 9.30 am on Tuesday 1 February, a detailed proposal for a multi-platform treatment of a topical news item, appropriate to Sky News. Proposals will be considered by a panel that will draw up a final shortlist of candidates. On Wednesday 9 February the shortlisted students will sit tests in general knowledge and spelling set by Sky News. Finally the candidates will be interviewed by a panel consisting of Rob Kirk of Sky News, Tim Luckhurst, Ian Reeves and Stephen Claypole of DMA Media. The scholar will be chosen according to the scholarship rules (available on request). The scholar will receive their prize from Jon Snow, Presenter of Channel 4 News and 2011 Bob Friend Memorial Lecturer, at the lecture on Friday 25 February in the Pilkington Lecture Theatre.  Our previous scholars, Alan McGuinness (2009) and Dan May (2010), can reveal all.  Ian and I are happy to answer questions.