Where journalists have greatness thrust upon them
To date only a handful of students have confirmed that they wish to be entered for the PA exam on 11 June (and paid me). The deadline for entry is tomorrow 21.05. Talk to me.
A film based on Scotland’s biggest UFO incident is to start filming in September 2013. The writer of the film, Malcolm Robinson, is currently preparing A70 which will hit cinemas across the UK in 2014.
The film is based on a true story- the ‘A70 incident’ in which two men claimed they were abducted from their car on the A70 road in West Lothian in 1992.
For second years working on their interactive feature assignments, here's a good example from last year. This is Huw Jenkins' moving piece about the Broome family. Click the image to play it.
This bulletin was produced by students on the Multimedia Journalism MA on Wednesday 27 February 2013.
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Reporting team: Tara Nichelle, Pamela Head, Rebecca Pike, Clare Stanton-Lacey, Matthew McKew, Matthew Leclere, Mark Kwemoi
Presenter: Tim Bates
Producer: Chris Wallis
The Medway Mail, one of two newspapers produced on Friday by first and second years on the undergraduate journalism degree. Team details below.
Here's the Medway Mail's arch-rival publication, the Daily Meow, produced by a team of first and second year undergraduates last Friday. Team details below.
Team B's bulletin, produced by Year 2 students from the undergraduate course, went out at 5.15pm on Thursday 15 November 2012.
Editor: Richard Pendry
Presenter: Clarissa Place
Studio producers: Kieran Watkins, Emily Magdij
Reporters: Christine stokes, Bill Topping, Matt Charles, Declan Olley, Rebecca Lawrence,
Production team: Lauren Clarke, Rikki Clarke, Joshua Morl, Lydia Hamilton, Jack Reed
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Team A's bulletin, put together by Year 2 students on the BA course, went out at 4.45pm on Thursday, 15 November 2012.
Editor: Tim Luckhurst
Studio producer: Jemma collins
Presenter: Ben Wright
Reporters: Sam thompson, Kirsten Ringlemann, Lydia Deichmann, Mara Podaru,
Production team: Mhairi Beveridge, Laura Griffiths, Molly Pike, Joshua Margrie-Rouse, Daniel Sampayo, Damilola Sole, Charlie Wahl, Christopher Walker
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Tom Hart Dyke is obsessed with plants. His obsession has taken him all over the world, and in the year 2000, into the hands of guerrillas in the South American jungle. This multimedia presentation tells his life story - with video clips of Tom talking about his ordeal, and photos of his travels. Since coming home, Tom has created the World Garden at Lullingstone Castle, his home - an idea he came up with in captivity. You can browse photos of the World Garden in the presentation, too.
Newsflare, the social network and marketplace for amateur video journalists, has just gone live. Newsflare is the destination for content that is Too breaking, Too remote or Too Local for traditional news organisations to cover.
We have received the following message which may be of interest:
I am writing to you today as we have a number of journalistic opportunities which may be of interest to your students at University of Kent.
We have received the following from Vanquis Bank. They are located on the Campus, next door to CCCU on North Road:
We may have an opportunity for a current journalism student or recent graduate to help us with a social media initiative we are looking to put in place.
Vanquis is based in the Chatham Maritime Business Park and facilities (phone, PC, desk) can be made available at our Chatham offices for the person or persons involved.
Congratulations to MA students Laura Garcia, Lizzie Massey and Qandeel Warrich, whose video about lone yachtsman Oliver Rofix went out on the Media Trust's Community Channel this week.
You can see it on the Community Channel web site here - it's the first item in the programme.
And for older viewers, it's a chance to see how Anthea Turner's career is panning out.
This is the broadcast that went out at 4pm on Thursday December 15 2011.
Presenters: Rikki Clarke and Jemma Collins
Production editor: Matt Charles
Bulletin editor: Declan Olley
Reporting team: Lauren Clarke, Lydia Deichmann, Laura Griffiths, Lydia Hamilton, Hind Joucka, Rebecca Lawrence, Joshua Margrie-Rouse, Jack Reed
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This broadcast went out at 4.45pm on Thursday December 15 2011.
Presenters: Damilola Sole, Joshua Morl
Production editor: Clarissa Place
Bulletin editor: Benjamin Wright
Reporting team: Molly Pike, Mara Podaru, Kirsten Ringelmann, Daniel Sampayo, Holly Stewart, Christine Stokes, Sam Thompson, Bill Topping, Charlie Wahl, Christopher Walker
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The Centre for Journalism's BA in Journalism and the News Industry has been recognised as Britain's top performing undergraduate degree in journalism. At an NCTJ awards ceremony in Belfast City Hall last night Prof. Tim Luckhurst and Ian Reeves were presented with a certificate confirming our top ranking in academic year 2010/11. Tim Luckhurst said: "This award is an immense tribute to all the excellent staff in the Centre who have worked so hard to design and deliver this unique combination of professional education and academic rigour - and to the excellent students who study with us. When we launched the degree we pledged to make it the best in the country. It is particularly gratifying to know that we have beaten all the competition."
Not Premier League Proven (NPLP) is a podcast created by journalism students at the University of Kent who all love football. The podcast consists of six students offering fresh comment, every Wednesday, on the latest gossip surrounding the beautiful game.
These are the bulletins broadcast by second year undergraduate students on Thursday 10 November, complete with cheesy title sequences.
On Friday 3 June students on the MA in Multimedia Journalism produced 30 minutes of live radio. The show went on air live at 1630. You can hear it here
Rochester & Strood MP Mark Reckless joined a second year undergraduate news team in the television studio to talk about plans for a third power station on the Hoo Peninsula.
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Chatham and Aylesford MP Tracey Crouch dropped in for a tour of the Centre for Journalism, and joined second year undergraduate Nicola Sturmey in the television studio for an on-air chat about local rail services and new initiatives for the Sure Start programme.
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Many congratulations to Jay Akbar, Peter Brown, Scott Mitchell, Danielle Morris and Tania Steere who have all made the shortlist for the Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship 2011. The standard of submissions was particularly high and I am grateful to everyone who made a submission. The shortlisted candidates will meet the selection panel on 9 February. I know that everyone in the Centre will join me in wishing them all the very best of luck.
The students:
John Saunders, Third year, BA Journalism
Lucy Ross-Miller, Third year, BA Journalism
Simon Jayawardena, MA Multimedia Journalism
Sara Malm, Second year, BA Journalism
Sophie Jenkins, MA Multimedia Journalism
Bulletin produced by Year 2 undergraduate students, their first time in the TV studio.
BBC Director General Mark Thompson thinks the current generation of journalism students will be entering a world that is full of opportunities.
Last night Thompson delivered the second Bob Friend Memorial Lecture at the University of Kent, which awards a scholarship in the former Sky News presenter’s name to a first-year undergraduate student every year.
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This morning at 8am the Centre for Journalism Newswire goes live to the world. The project is being undertaken as part of the Centre's Online news day for second-year undergraduates. We will be covering - for one day only - a mix of national and international stories, as well as local stories relevant to Kent using a variety of multimedia techniques.
Have fun boys...
Cue: An implanted, sand-grain-size microchip is now able to remind patients to take their medicine via text messages. Melanie Wimmer reports.
The results for the shorthand exam taken on 26 March are now published on the NCTJ website. Many congratulations to all second years who passed. If you cannot access them, let me know.
