Journalism & PR at Sunderland

Football writers wanted

By John Price ⋅ February 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

A new football website is looking for budding journalists to write for them.
A spokesman for Premierleagueinsider.com said:
We have a number of journalism students who write regularly for us in order to gain experience and exposure and wondered if you would be willing to make our site known to your students.
All contributors have the option of [...]

‘Learn how to learn’ – Dominic Cameron

By Abigail Horseman ⋅ November 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The Digital entrepreneur Dominic Cameron visited the University yesterday to give the students a taster of the online media world.
For a man who best describes himself as an engineer, producer and entrepreneur, Dominic has an impressive CV that includes roles as co-founder of Beeb.com. He now heads up ITV.com.
Living by the motto ‘Love, Simplicity, Optimism’, [...]

Dominic Cameron Masterclass

By admin ⋅ October 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Dominic Cameron – the former television journalist and director who helped transform lastminute.com and now heads up ITV.com – will be giving a masterclass on St Peter’s campus, in the cinema, at 10am on Tuesday November 3rd. (For journalism students, that’s right after MAC373 Ethics).
His subject is the future of news and content production on-line. [...]

Six reasons why magazines have a future

By Alex Lockwood ⋅ March 4, 2009 ⋅ One comment

“The future of magazines is glorious,” said Simon Wear of magazine house Future UK, wrapping up the industry event ‘What Happens to Magazines?’ held in London last night. “Both print and online,” he added.
He would say that, though: Future has been selling a successful 1.7m magazines a month through the recession with its hobby and [...]

Interview with new digital magazine, ecoforyou

By Alex Lockwood ⋅ December 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Shaun Milne, founding Director of digital publishing company Planet Ink, shares his decisions and ambitions for new online-only magazine ecoforyou.
Why did you go for a turn-page magazine format?
There were a number of good reasons, not least it is a fairly straightforward skill to learn. We purchase the technology on license so we don’t need [...]

Good news for students – spend more time on Facebook!

By juliebradford ⋅ December 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Sunderland Echo’s digital editor Lee Hall told journalism and PR students today they should be spending MORE time on Facebook for the good of their media careers (though try telling that to your irate tutor . .)
Lee came along to Sunderland University to talk about how newspapers are making their web presences felt and [...]

Question to students: do you run a blog/site?

By Alex Lockwood ⋅ December 10, 2008 ⋅ 6 comments

Do you run your own blog? And if you do, would you be willing to be highlighted in our next ’six of the best’ entry on independent student websites?
Yesterday I posted on a range of great student portfolio sites from across the web. At the same time, I also saw an application for position of [...]

Echo boss outlines digital future

By juliebradford ⋅ December 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The digital director for the Sunderland Echo, Lee Hall, will give a guest lecture in the cinema at 12-1pm this Wednesday (Dec 10). Lee will be talking about how journalism and PR are adapting to the online world, and what works well on the web. He’ll be stressing that online and video skills are something [...]

Six of the best… student portfolio sites

By Alex Lockwood ⋅ December 9, 2008 ⋅ 7 comments

For the web session I am running later today for Level 3 and MA students, I thought it useful to share with everyone the different examples of student portfolio sites that we’ll be looking at.
It can go without saying (because it has already been said, by Martin Stabe, Mindy McAdams and the Iconoclast, amongst others) [...]

The end of the story – as we know it

By philipyoung ⋅ October 27, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Jeff Jarvis has an excellent piece in today’s Guardian in which he questions the ability of static media to handle complex stories. He begins:
In the crush of news around the financial crisis – and its ensuing overdose of commentary and confusion – it occurred to me that the basic building block of journalism, the article, [...]

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