Two University of Central Lancashire newspaper journalism students had cause for a double celebration on the same day. Kyle Caldwell and Hannah Upton received their academic awards and job offers within hours of each other last Friday.
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Postgraduate newspaper journalism student Adam Lord has landed a job with the Hull Daily Mail. Adam who was a awarded a postgraduate newspaper journalism diploma with merit starts working in the production hub that serves the Hull Daily Mail, Grimsby Telegraph, Scunthorpe Telegraph and Lincolnshire Echo, as well as several weeklies and the usual supplements.
The University of Central Lancashire has picked up four prizes in the latest broadcast industry training awards. The MA/PG Diploma in Broadcast Journalism course won the BJTC’s prestigious College Award for “general excellence in broadcast journalism training.”
A former postgraduate newspaper journalism student is joining the News of the World as a trainee reporter. Alexandra McGowan has been offered a two year contract by the paper’s editor Colin Myler on its Robert Warren Scholarship. She starts in September.
A third year student and Blackpool FC fan is putting his newspaper journalism degree to an unusual use. Jonathan Lord is becoming chaplain at a Roman Catholic High School in his home town. As part of the job he’ll be doing a placement in Nigeria with the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD).
The North West has a new independent music magazine thanks to a former uclan newspaper journalism student. The Ark at Preston brainchild of Gareth Butterworth was a sell-out success when it launched this month and is already set to increase its print run.
The School of Journalism, Media and Communication is holding a postgraduate day on Saturday 12 June 2010. To pre-register email classhelp@uclan.ac.uk or telephone 01772 893118
A group of uclan journalism students have won jobs with top media organisations even before graduating this summer. Ben Winstanley on the postgraduate newspaper journalism course beat off stiff competition to win a place on the Daily Mail’s scheme for trainee subs. Fellow postgrad Rhianne Pope joins the Oxford Mail as a cub reporter.
Third year magazine journalism undergraduates have been given a taste of the ‘dark side’ and a unique perspective on public relations from one of the faculty’s guest speakers. Ralph Savage, director of Manchester-based PR agency RTS Media, presented students who graduate next month with a talk on how their chosen profession interacts with the world of public relations.
Up and coming football writers went to one of the country’s top clubs to inspect their future working conditions.
Students from the Sports Journalism course at the University of Central Lancashire visited the media department at Ewood Park, home …
Former newspaper journalism student Sophie Wyllie became front page news herself when she broke the story about a Labour candidate in Norfolk denouncing Gordon Brown during the general election.
Will Gore of the Press Copmplaints Commission will examine the organisation’s record in policing the newspaper and magazine industry. Just how good is the PCC in regulating an unruly press? Does the public get what it wants. Is self-regulation working. You can hear his lecture at 4pm Tuesday 30 March in Greenbank Lecture Theatre.
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