Huge congratulations to Matt Charles, second year student on the BA in Journalism and Deputy Editor of the Medwire, who has reached the shortlist for NUS Student Journalist of the Year. Full details of the shortlist are here To get this far is a huge achievement and we wish Matt the very best of luck in the final round.

The Centre for Journalism has a reputation for producing graduates who get excellent jobs, but the real credit is due to our students who work so hard to convert their education into professional opportunity. This year there are several who have reason to celebrate before they have received their final results. So big cheers for: Jay Akbar, who is working shifts at Sky News; Matt McKew, Trainee Reporter on the Isle of Wight County Press; Scott Mitchell, journalist with Autocar Magazine; Harley Tamplin, Trainee Reporter on the West Sussex County Times; Tiia Mustonen, now Nordic Correspondent Research Europe; Tania Steere who has secured one of the most prized traineeships in British journalism as a Trainee Reporter on the Daily Mail, and Tara Nichelle who has won a place as a Communications Intern at the United Nations in Geneva. Well done all. If anyone else has good news to share we would love to hear about it.

The Public Affairs exam on 11 June starts at 1pm in room G3-05. Please arrive in plenty of time with student ID card.

Students eligible for extra time will be located in room G4-04.

During the summer we are hoping to refurbish the CFJ newsrooms with beautiful, gleaming new Imac computers. Mmmm - Nice!

This means that the PC's that you all currently use will be gone by july.

I know that all of you backup your files to your own machines and external hard drives but remind you that it is essential that you have all of the work you have created stored on your own media before the end of June 2013 - it will not be available once the computers have been replaced.

At this time of year, it's not uncommon for misconceptions to circulate about the concessions process. So it's  worth reminding students of where they can find information about  the system.

It is explained clearly in your student handbooks, and is also set out here on the main University web site.

For the avoidance of doubt: individual coursework marks will never be 'adjusted' by the marker on the grounds that a concession form has been submitted.

Still hanging on to the forlorn hope that you can get by in journalism without passing your shorthand? Take a look at this new video put together by Sky for the National Council for the Training of Journalists, featuring some of the biggest names in the business.

The revision session for Reporting and Writing I will need to be pushed back a little on Tuesday, as there's a meeting in the morning I need to go to. Can we get together at 11am in the main newsroom?

Thanks

Rob

Marks and feedback forms for Year 3 projects are now available. You can collect them from me any time today.

For more detailed face-to-face feedback, set up a meeting with your supervisor.

The Kent Messenger's pages were stuffed with stories by Centre for Journalism students during April and May - including bylines on the front and back pages. Here's 10 of the best of them. 

Placements are available to every student at the end of their first year, giving them two weeks of reporting experience on a major regional newspaper.

Your friendly neighbourhood Multimedia Newsroom Technician needs to audit our CFJ equipment and account for broken, missing and otherwise absent parts.

PLEASE could ALL students return all kit no later than THURSDAY 30th MAY to Gerardo (only).

You need to ensure that all parts are present (hopefully correct) and it is essential that you check in your own kit - I cannot accept equipment returned on behalf of other students.