Journalism & PR at Sunderland

The Observer relaunches on Sunday

By admin ⋅ February 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Especially for those journalism students who answered the essay question last semester on the future of the Observer (MAC381), this piece of news is very timely — the Observer is to relaunch this Sunday:
The Observer’s mission statement from its inception in 1791 reads: “Unbiased by prejudice – uninfluenced by party. Whole principle is independence, whole [...]

Students: how to start getting yourself taken seriously as a journalist

By juliebradford ⋅ November 18, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Want to start getting noticed? Here’s how our third-year student Josh Halliday made the most of the opportunity when ex-Mirror editor David Banks came to Sunderland University to give a lecture.
Step 1 .. Seize the opportunity when someone like Banks comes to visit. Ex-editor, broadcaster, columnist, he is someone who is listened to in the [...]

‘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’, [...]

Meet the Team: Chris Rushton

By chrisrushton ⋅ November 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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: Susan Pickering

By admin ⋅ October 15, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

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 [...]

InJournalism wants student bloggers

By admin ⋅ October 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Student bloggers: InJournalism wants you!
Are you a University of Sunderland student? Do you have a blog? If you answered yes to both of these, InJournalism.co.uk wants you.
InJournalism, soon to undergo a name-change and wholesale revamp, is looking to publish your blogposts and link out to your blog – think Huffington Post style -driving lots of [...]

Meet the team: Philip Young

By philipyoung ⋅ October 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Shorthand: beginning in Week 3

By Alex Lockwood ⋅ September 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Hi all Journalism students.
Shorthand classes will be beginning in Week 3. This will mean we can give every student their specific times and make their start of shorthand as easy and straightforward as possible.
Level 2 and Level 3 students already know the importance (and fascination) of shorthand Level 1 students, you still have [...]

What skills do journalism students need?

By juliebradford ⋅ May 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Let us know what you think. Journalism student Josh Halliday and lecturer Julie Bradford are carrying out a survey into what students think is important and what they’d like to see more (and less) of on their journalism degrees.
The survey results will be presented at The Future of Journalism Education conference in London on June [...]

Guardian journalism competition

By John Price ⋅ April 29, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Write a story for The Guardian and you could win a trip to Africa.
Students are being asked to submit a 650-1000 word story about an aspect of global poverty. The deadline is June 22.
The best stories will be published online and 16 finalists will be flown to Africa or Asia to research stories to [...]

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