Fascinating piece in Guardian about the pressures applied to student journalists to prevent them reporting the affairs of their own universities. This is why we have always advised the Medwire team to maintain complete independence from the institutions it should hold to account.  

England 6 – 42 South Africa No amount of good old British courage could stop the number one side in the world as South Africa rampaged past England at Twickenham on a bitter Saturday afternoon in South West London. As I drove past the stadium two hours before the start I could smell the pies […]

  277643501_695102791747573_2023578088542275001_n.jpg One big question about the MCU is this – how long can it last? When cast members start to get too old or their contracts expire, a difficult narrative decision needs to be made about where to take those characters. Click here to see my full story.

Ridley Scott’s recent filmography reeks of desperation. Efforts to top his Oscar-winning hit Gladiator continue to fall flat, whilst fans of Alien were left cold by 2012’s messy prequel, Prometheus. The fact that every trailer for an upcoming Scott feature never ceases to remind us that it comes ‘from the director of Gladiator’ speaks volumes. Nothing borne […]

Doctor-Strange-in-the-Multiverse-of-Madness-poster-Doctor-Strange-2-MCU-film-movie-300×438.png I have now seen Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness twice, and I feel like it’s the first time for me where I am starting to feel burnout from all these superhero films. I felt it pretty early on with Star Wars and after Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker and as much as […]

In recent weeks, football fans have come in for a bit of a kicking in the media in the wake of a number of incidents.  It started a month ago with the man who ran onto the pitch at Birmingham and assaulted Jack Grealish, and since then, incidents involving fans have become front page news. […]

… just in case the man from The Guardian writes it all down and makes you look doubly stupid.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LWAj8e-IiIE Despite a Brexit Party landslide in Kent, Medway Labour leader Vince Maple said that his party shouldn’t be too worried about last night’s EU Election results. Labour only managed to win one seat out of the ten available in the South East, with voters flocking to both The Brexit Party and the Liberal Democrats. […]

Guns ‘n’ Roses actually releasing their long-awaited album Chinese Democracy, perhaps?! Rumour has it that the well-known Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. made a promise of a free Dr Pepper to everyone in America if the new album was released before the end of 2008. Unfortunately when they said everyone, they didn’t mean everyone; ex-band […]

These are the classes that David and I are running, for those who think they want to take the optional NCTJ Broadcast module. I’ll talk more about it in coming classes for the Year 2 and MA students. Richard 18 JAN    REGULATION BRIEFING UG NEWSROOM 1315 to 1400 15 FEB    NCTJ REGULATION Workshop Phil Harding […]

The work of photojournalist Robert Capa will doubtless crop up in several modules during the course of the undergraduate degree, so here’s a little taster courtesy of the BBC News web site. It’s an audio slideshow featuring an exhibition of Capa’s work that is opening at the Barbican. Worth a visit just for his extraordinary pictures of […]

Vacancy: Social Media Intern | 3 Month Trial | Applications Deadline: 10th July 2019 Tweet your way through the day! This exciting opportunity offers you the opportunity to kick start your career and expand your social media knowledge and journalism skills. You will work closely with the Mogul team. This is a great opportunity for […]

Cinco de Mayo, or as every non-American calls it May 5th, marked one year since I became a vegetarian.  It’s a milestone that I wasn’t necessarily sure I’d accomplish, but one that I’m quite proud of.  It is also a lifestyle I now know I can commit to and plan to stick with for a […]

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What do you want from your experience at Kent?  If you are a 2nd or 3rd year undergraduate student, please come to a focus group discussion to tell us! Discussions for students from the Centre for Journalism will be held at: Wednesday, 22 November, 2017, 13:30, Gillingham Building Room 4-12.  Also you get FREE LUNCH!!! Find out more […]

As a little bit of a production fanatic, I was saddened to hear of the news that ITV is to move out of their current home in just over a week, leaving behind years of history. The London Studios, which first opened for transmission in 1972 as The South Bank Television centre, is to now be […]

The older I get, the less I know what im doing. At least that’s how it feels sometimes. There may (will) be some people reading this that will understand this feeling completely, but remember you aren’t alone. We aren’t in school anymore where we must know what we are doing with our lives and how […]

It’s hard to stay positive when you feel like your whole life is falling apart.    Sounds a bit dramatic, I know, but recently I’ve felt like I’ve been having nothing short of a premature quarter-life crisis.    It’s that time of the year when students are starting to seriously consider their futures as graduate […]

After years of awareness with regards to global warming it seems only now people are starting to take notice. The recent Extinction Rebellion protests throughout London have meant that climate change is finally a topic of discussion amongst MP’s within the House of Commons. In which time over 1000 people were inevitably arrested, including British […]

St Margarets logo.png Here’s an interesting job opportunity that might be attractive for the right Centre for Journalism graduate/near-graduate. It’s a multimedia Community Journalist role paid for by St Margaret’s Church in Rainham, Kent. The job spec says: “Half of the stories you produce will focus on the local community – its people and groups, […]

ARTIST: Various Artists. ALBUM: Ministry of Sound: Anthems II 1991-2009. RELEASED: December 2008. GENRE: Dance (Electronica, House, Techno, Trance etc). MY ALBUM RATING: **** PLEASE SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE FOR TRACK LISTINGS*  “Dance to disco and you don’t like rock,” said Neil Tennant, the other half of the electronic dance music duo, Pet […]

Audio of my talk at King’s College   On Sound Cloud – https://soundcloud.com/warstudies/africas-long-road-since-independence-t…                                                                                       […]

Darrisaw_0.webp   From worst to first? – Hopes for 2021 Vikings OL post-draft     Minnesota Vikings fans have been incredibly vocal of their team’s Offensive Line issues over the last few years, and it looks like GM Rick Spielman echoed those concerns going into this year’s draft.    The 2020 season was not very […]

Good to see our graduate Frances Acquaah in The Guardian recently. Here she is: http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/30/black-dstrkt-london… Well done, Frances