Archive for March, 2009
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
A glimpse into the archives: Tom Welsh and Bob Jones talk through images from the archive
As this year’s students settle into the new £14million journalism department, a trip into the archives brings back an era when copy was churned out on typewriters and classrooms were filled with cigarette smoke. Much has remained the same: local residents are pounced upon by eager vox poppers (spot Barry McIlheney, editor in chief at [...]
Link to XCity blogs
To keep up-to-date with the XCity team’s other work, check out their blogs!
Anna-Marie Julyan, Food for thought…
Lucinda Dunseath, War and Words
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, Marylebone Blog
John Sunyer, Streets of London
Nick Johnstone, on BBC
George Kiley, Super Spurs
Sophie Payne, Talk about health
Ruth Lewy, Femineye
Jess Bowie, on London arts
Natalie Woolman, on Drury Lane
Gabi Jaffe, on France
Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith, I’ll Keep [...]
Vietnamese delegation visits City University
Heads from top Vietnamese journalism schools visited media organisations in London during a trip hosted by City University and the British Council in March. For more click here. Video by Charlotte Middlehurst and Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
Reporters without borders: The fight for press freedom
Interactive map of Press Freedom in Europe
View Larger Mapmap:Phoebe Ferris-Rotman
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
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.
