Meet the Team: Chris Rushton

My Office Hours: Rm 204, 10-11 am, Mondays (please note I’m sometimes called away for meetings, but happy to meet students at other times – just send email to chris.rushton@sunderland.ac.uk)
About me: Discovered journalism through student politics and talked my way into Mirror Group graduate training scheme after writing series of articles on Northern Ireland during the [...]

Meet the team: Julie Bradford

My Office Hours: Room 214a, 10-12pm Tuesday

About Me: Programme leader for Journalism Studies and for journalism in combined subjects. Trained as a reporter on the Newcastle Evening Chronicle and worked as women’s reporter (these were unenlightened times), consumer editor and investigative reporter. Joined the French press agency Agence France-Presse and reported in the Middle East [...]

Meet the team: David Banks

My Office Hours: Tuesday, 10-11, 1-3 Room 218
About me: Worked on various publications in North West and Wales in roles from from junior reporter to night editor. Law graduate turned journalist via postgrad at Cardiff. Returned to the law by co-writing McNae’s Essential Law for Journalists. Work with the NCTJ as chief examiner and member of [...]

Meet the Team: Susan Pickering

Office hours: Monday 10-11 in room 218 Media Centre.
Modules: I am module leader for all six shorthand modules.
About me: On and off I’ve been at Sunderland for over 20 years, and spent the last 11 of those teaching shorthand. I also work for most of the local papers, helping their trainees to increase their [...]

Meet the team: Philip Young

My Office Hours: Room 218, 2-4 Wednesday
About me: Programme leader for MA Public Relations, subject leader for PR in Combined Subjects and Level 1 PR tutor. I spent quite a while in newspapers, always travelling north and moving ever further away from Fleet Street until I became assistant editor of The Journal. Worked in PR for [...]

J&PR team at Journalism Conference tomorrow

The journalism and PR team are heading over to the annual conference of the Association of Journalism Education tomorrow (12th Sept), held this year in Sheffield with the theme ‘New Media, New Democracy?’
The conference has three special guest speakers: Nick Davies, author of Flat Earth News; Charlie Beckett, author of Supermedia, and Stephen Coleman, author [...]