by sportsbeat | Jun 8, 2020 | Blog
If you are considering becoming a journalist, or indeed, if you are in the early stages of your journalism career, then I recommend reading the following books about journalism. Believe me, they make a nice change from pouring over McNae’s and Cartwright, writes...
by sportsbeat | May 21, 2020 | Blog
Our newsrooms may have fallen uncharacteristically silent but The School of Journalism trainees certainly haven’t – but would you expect anything else? As ‘Zoom’ becomes a new verb, our trainees have embraced the video conferencing platform to hold a...
by sportsbeat | Apr 15, 2020 | Blog
We offer each of our trainees up to £1,000 every summer of their degree to spend on journalism work experience or a journalism project. It’s part of what makes us the UK’s most practical journalism degree. Here, trainee Luke Madeira tells us how he used his journalism...
by sportsbeat | Apr 14, 2020 | Blog
The buzz of the byline – it never goes away! Writes our head of journalism Andrew Greaves. I think every journalist remembers the first time they saw their name in print next to a story they’d written. I certainly do. It was during a stint on work experience at the...
by sportsbeat | Apr 13, 2020 | Blog
The art of successful interviewing is often overlooked in newsrooms, writes our deputy managing editor Graham Dudman. And I don’t mean job interviews. I’m talking about gathering information by speaking to people either face to face or on the phone or via Skype/Zoom...
