scholarship

The 2011 Daily Mail Scholarship has been launched. Funded by Associated Newspapers it will be awarded to a gifted postgraduate student of multimedia journalism at the University of Kent's Centre for Journalism.  

The Centre invites all students who win places on our MA in Multimedia Journalism to compete for the award which is worth £10,000. 

This message just in from Val Harper, foreign manager at the Sunday Times: On behalf of the Tom Walker Trust, The Sunday Times would like to invite proposals from your journalism students suggesting a foreign news story. They should submit their entry by email directly to me, they can submit more than one idea. The closing date is July 1st, 2010. They also need to attach their CV with their entry. The Tom Walker Trust was started a few years ago in memory of our dear colleague.  This special award offers a great opportunity to a student wishing to tackle foreign affairs and to develop his or her own idea for a report in the field. The winner will receive £1,000, four weeks experience on the foreign desk at The Sunday Times and the chance to work with a senior correspondent as well as doing his/her own assignment. 

Well done that man !

And well done those girls too.

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. 

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.

Applications are invited for the 2010 Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship, awarded in memory of the former Sky News presenter and journalist.

The 2010 Bob Friend Scholar will have their first year tuition fees paid, and will be guaranteed a month-long summer work placement at Sky News, for which travel and accommodation expenses up to a maximum of £2,000 will be paid.

I want to congratulate all the staff and students at CfJ. Of course Alan McGuinness should be particularly proud to be the inaugural Bob Friend scholar and we are all proud of him. However, the rest of you all played a part in his success. You have all contributed to the rapidly growing reputation of CfJ. It is that reputation that convinced Sky that Kent is the best place to find a suitable recipient for the Scholarship. The email from Rob Kirk shows that they know they made the right decision.I have been delighted by all I have seen at the Centre.

Alan McGuinness has been named as the first recipient of the Sky News Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship. He will formally receive the award from head of Sky News John Ryley on February 9 at the inaugural Sky Bob Friend Memorial lecture in the Pilkinton Building. 

All those who applied for the Sky News Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship have now been contacted individually, so I can publish details of the shortlist. Congratulations go to (alphabetically) Laura Hartmann, Alan McGuinness, Lucy Ross-Miller, John Saunders and Kelsey Williams. They will undergo a written test and a panel interview tomorrow (and should check their emails for some addditional details).