by sportsbeat | Sep 23, 2020 | Blog
After working hard each week to master their essential journalism skills, our trainees will now get the chance to attend free remote yoga classes on Sunday mornings. We have hired professional yoga instructor Emma Lindsay – a former part-time trainee who currently...
by sportsbeat | Jul 16, 2020 | Blog
100% of final year undergraduate trainees at The School of Journalism have passed their 100wpm shorthand exam. All of the final year trainees on our first-ever undergraduate cohort studying for their NCTJ alongside their BA in Multimedia Journalism taught by News...
by sportsbeat | Jun 8, 2020 | Blog
What is Clearing Plus? Your questions answered below! Clearing Plus is a new UCAS Clearing tool which will match unplaced undergraduate applicants to relevant courses with vacancies. For the first time, unplaced students in Clearing (because you didn’t get the grades...
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...