I’ve recently completed a work placement at Sky News, which resulted in being asked back for a further placement, and also a letter of recommendation from Phil Wardman, head of newsgathering for Sky News Online. In my two weeks time with their Online team, and while on other placements, various themes started to appear on [...]
Since senior tutors at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) sent round an email on Tuesday morning telling students to avoid demonstrations in the city centre on Saturday, there has been some debate as to whether they were right or wrong. Saturday will see the English Defence League (EDL) protest against the development of mosques [...]
On Wednesday, as George Osborne read his spending review speech to the House of Commons, hordes of journalists looked on in anticipation – and the scene was no different at the University of Central Lancashire. After a last-minute plan was hatched by Michael Williams, former deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday and head of [...]
