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City abandons postgrad diplomas for MAs

City abandons postgrad diplomas for MAs

Journalism head Adrian Monck says the move will increase City’s international standing but some students are angered by syllabus change After more than 30 years, City’s postgraduate journalism diploma is to be scrapped, writes Martina Booth. ...

Where does a City degree lead? Graduate destinations revealed

Where does a City degree lead? Graduate destinations revealed

Companies Where does a City degree take you? This ‘word cloud’ shows who has been employing City Journalism postgraduates.* Each organisation’s name appears ...

City at the heart of credit crisis coverage

City at the heart of credit crisis coverage

“Last September was the moment when the world changed forever,” said Kiran Stacey (Newspaper, 2008), a reporter for the Financial Times. “I was outside Lehman the day after it failed, trying to interview sacked bankers. The sense of destruction around Canary Wharf was almost as if a bomb had gone off.” By Hannah Hudson ...

Postgraduates go behind the scenes at animal testing lab

Postgraduates go behind the scenes at animal testing lab

 By Duncan Brown An animal testing organisation took 40 postgraduate newspaper students around a London laboratory last November to provide an insight into the “clouded issue” of medical testing on animals. ...

MYTH-O-RAMA

MYTH-O-RAMA

Obama’s mythical forebears from antiquity – can he learn from the classics? By Duncan Brown ...

There’s no such thing as a free paper

There's no such thing as a free paper

Metro’s blue metal bins have marked its territory on the tube since 1999, but with the rights to the bins up for renewal, upstart rival thelondonpaper could gain ground. John Sunyer looks a few stops ahead to the unfolding battle for supremacy ...

How did we turn a senator into Superman?

How did we turn a senator into Superman?

©Michal Czerwonka/AFP/Getty Images Every epoch has its heroes. In its coverage of the American elections, the Western media conjured one for our times. Rachel O’Neill gets an academic take on how the press mythologised Obama and asks how long it can last His handsome, clean-shaven face, wrinkle-free except for a few laughter lines, looks ou...

From Basra with Love Pt.1: Simon Tisdall’s wife tells of married life with a foreign correspondent

From Basra with Love Pt.1: Simon Tisdall's wife tells of married life with a foreign correspondent

Simon Tisdall is assistant editor and a foreign affairs columnist at The Guardian. He recently covered conflicts in Darfur, Eritrea and Thailand. During Simon’s time as The Guardian’s US editor, he and his wife Alison moved their family to America.  Here, Alison speaks to Natalie Woolman about her experiences. ...