Sky Sports News are offering work experience opportunities of up to two weeks for students who are studying on NCTJ accredited courses.  The deadline for application is 9 July.  If you are interested further details can be found at https://jobs.sky.com/job/osterley/work-experience-in-sky-sports-news-hq/1748/4880060

The Independent Press Standards Organisation will be holding a Twitter Q&A on Tuesday 12th April with Richard Best, Deputy Chair of the Complaints Committee. They will be using the hashtag #AskIPSO and will be happy to take questions in advance as well as on the day.  

You would think that our generation is one that has lived to see many things that have been happening across the Globe, but somehow I can’t take this idea out of my head: that as much as we want to admit that we are free, that we think outside the box, that we’re not as […]

Reading through the blogs, I noticed that the entries have been dominated by football news, chart entries and random spells of intellectual reckoning [all of which coming from the boys!] so this is one from the girls, but an open debate for all. This blog leads on from the point raised today regarding the funding […]

A rare opportunity has arisen to join the sportsdesk at one of the country’s biggest independent publishers. KM Media Group part of Iliffe Media, publishes some of the UK’s biggest-selling weekly newspapers, runs a network of radio stations, the award-winning KentOnline network and affiliated TV station KMTV. This position is based on the North Kent sportsdesk in Medway. The […]

Medway’s director of legal studies Lesley Phippen just popped  up to say she’d noticed a caption howler on the BBC’s live coverage of the Armistice commemorations. Apparently, war veterans had been laying ‘reefs’ at the Cenotaph… I blame Jonathan Ross.

The ITV News Traineeship 2015-16 opened for applications on the ITV Jobs website today. Further details, and the online application form, can be found by following this link: itvjobs.com/ Applications open: Monday 19 January Applications close: Friday 30 January Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a 1 day assessment at ITV’s London office on either […]

The Gods of Journalism are vengeful and mysterious.  So today we must offer them a new sacrifice in the form of a fresh editor for the Centre for Journalism web site. In the time-honoured way, they have this morning revealed to me the name of the candidate they wish to be delivered to their altar… […]

When a person thinks “magazine” there is no doubt that universally, Vogue will come close to the top of the list whether the individual has an interest in fashion or not. Its pages are iconic, timeless and ultimately the founder of the fashion sector that makes up our magazine industry today.   Throughout this whole […]

The debates that arose these last few months about the possible publishing of Mein Kampf during the course of the year following its entry in the public domain were always going to be deeply divisive. Adolf Hitler’s foul manifesto is, after all, an unequivocally vile collection of self-righteous bigotry and hateful drivel the likes of which have rarely been […]

“Radio is dead.” This is a sentence that I have heard numerous times. In fact radio isn’t dying. Radio content is gaining more demand than ever before; it is the way that we listen to radio that is changing so dramatically. Maybe I am oblivious to the fact that radio is dying. It is, after […]

The library tours in Welcome Week were incomplete because the vital library person was ill.  So those nice people at the Drill Hall Library, Jackie Wright and Lesley Gould, are putting on some special online training sessions next Thursday, 8 October, as follows. They will include how to log on and view the catalogue and how […]

So we’ve been here a while now, and it looks like the course is going to be great. A little bit worried about the comment Ian made to our tutor group   that most of them haven’t actually taught before, but now that we’ve started lectures it seems like they’ve got it all sussed. Am I […]

Regrettably Fi Glover’s visit on Monday, 13 February is cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.

The UK provided “intelligence or conducted the initial seizure of an individual before he was transferred to (mostly unacknowledged) detention centres … or to one of the CIA covert detention centres, often referred to as ‘black sites’” says the report. With escalating calls for an inquiry into our government’s collusion in torture, will this make […]

Last Saturday, I found myself in a precarious position: the strong-willed alpaca I had on a leash was dragging me across the Kentish landscape of Yalding. No, this wasn’t a fever dream. Alpaca walking is the latest creative offering from the forever-innovative well-being industry. This isn’t the first well-being activity to cater for stressed-out animal […]

With the PFA 2015/16 Awards less than a month away and the PFA representatives are making the rounds of the 92 clubs to deliver ballot forms. I thought I would try and predict who will win the awards and make it into the team of the year. Looking at last season’s winners Eden Hazard deservedly […]

When I arrived in Paris after the January 2015 terrorist attacks, I was surprised to find that life in the French capital seemed to have gone back to normal. But upon returning a year later, a few months after the Bataclan massacre, I couldn’t help but notice a real change. The state was, and had […]

Just think about this for a second, have you ever actually seen a baby pigeon?   I’m guessing you haven’t.   It’s because pigeons are very secretive birds. They lay their eggs, only two at a time, in small dark places. That’s why they have adopted new habitat’s under bridges, inside roofs and within our […]

Nicolas Anelka helped himself to a hat-trick as Chelsea got back to winning ways at Stamford Bridge with an easy 5-0 win over Sunderland. It was a bitterly chilly afternoon in West London, but the football on offer warmed the hearts of those who had braved the cold. Joe Cole recovered from an ankle injury […]

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“Choose life Choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and hope that someone, somewhere cares Choose looking up old flames, wishing you’d done it all differently And choose watching history repeat itself.” The opening lines of the 2017 version of Trainspotting’s chill-inducing “Choose life” monologue sound very much like a modern day mantra for the new generations. And […]

A piece in today’s Observer looks at the effect of the credit crunch on our generation – ‘Generation Y’ – and how much we care about it. The answer based on the students they interviewed? Not a lot.

Truly, this is a story with legs. Also feet. And more seriously, the broken bones of the shoe-thrower.  There are so many elements to savour it is hard to know where to start. What about the supporter who wanted to put the shoes into a museum, only to find out that the shoes have been […]