Ian Reeves's blog

Daniel May has been named as the Sky News Bob Friend Memorial Scholar for 2010. He will formally receive the award from Sky News's editorial development manager Rob Kirk on the evening of March 3 at the Sky Bob Friend Memorial Lecture, to be delivered this year by BBC Director-General Mark Thompson. 

For the second year running, YouTube is offering aspiring journalists the chance to win big money - and more importantly, the chance to work on a journalism project with the Pulitzer Center. For the first round of the Project Report competition, entrants are required to submit a video package based on a day in the life of a person they feel should be brought to the world's attention. The deadline is February 28.

We are delighted to announce that the shortlisting panel has chosen the following three students to face the scholarship panel on Wednesday. Congratulations to Sara Malm, Daniel May and Melanie Wimmer.

Many thanks to everyone who took the time to submit applications.

As the Guardian is now reporting - and as much of the online world was already well aware this morning - the philandering swine with the powerful lawyers was that fine upstanding gentleman, Mr John Terry. Expect pages of detail in the News of the World this Sunday.

Inspired by James and Paul's recent posts about Google Wave, I've just got around to activating my account to it. And now having sat through a couple of the many explanatory videos, I can't honestly say I'm much the wiser. (My gut feeling is that if something needs that much explanation, it's not going to fly).

Mark Thompson, the Director-General of the BBC, is to deliver the second Bob Friend Memorial Lecture at the Centre for Journalism in March.

At the same event one of our first year students will be awarded the Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship by Rob Kirk, Sky News's editorial development manager.

Both the lecture and scholarship were established in 2009 in a partnership between Sky News, the University of Kent and the Friend family, to provide a lasting memorial to the life and career of Bob Friend, who became the original face of Sky News after a long-standing career with the BBC.

Sir David Eady will give the opening address to a privacy conference at the University of Kent next month. Arguably the most influential High court judge in matters involving the media, Eady has presided over numerous key privacy hearings, including those of Sir Max Moseley, singer Loreena McKennitt and, most recently, Tiger Woods. Such is his prominence that the Daily Mail has accused him of having a "virtual monopoly over all cases against the media, enabling him to bring in a privacy law by the back door".

I've made some progress on improving the integration of Twitter with this site. Students and staff members can now register details of their Twitter accounts, which means that any blog they post on centreforjournalism will automatically be tweeted to their own Twitter account as well as to the CfJKent Twitter account. It can also work in reverse - if you choose to, you can opt for your Twitter account to automatically feed to a new section on this site.

The print news day that was disappointingly cancelled because of the weather on 18 December has been rescheduled for Wednesday 20 January 2010. The same editors, Rob Hayes and Zehra Mullick, will be in the hot seats and their teams will remain unchanged. As before, each team will be required to produce a 16-page newspaper containing international, national and local news by 5pm.

It's been good to see some new student names contributing to the CfJ blog during the holiday period - don't forget there'll be prizes for the best first year contributions when term resumes, so keep those blogs and comments coming in.

Meanwhile I've been working on better integration of external student blog and Twitter accounts with this site. I'm aware of a number of students who have their own blogs set up, and I'd like to run headline feeds from these to an area on the CfJ site - should be mutually beneficial in terms of traffic. The ones I know of so far are from Nick P, Alan M, Sara M, Jon S and James W. If there are others I haven't yet discovered, could you send me a link so that I can include them too? I'll get this up and running soon.

Even more students have Twitter accounts, so I've finally got around to finishing something I started a few months ago - a system which will automatically post tweets from your own Twitter accounts to this site too. To add your account to this system, follow these steps: