Professional honours for Uni journalism lecturer
Posted on June 7, 2009 - Filed Under Journalism, Media | Leave a Comment
JOHN MAIR Associate Senior lecturer in Journalism and inventor of the flagship series The Coventry Conversations has recently been given two professional honours. He was elected to the Advisory Board of the Royal Television Society, which consists of the most senior names in television, for example Wayne Garvie head of entertainment at the BBC, Justine [...]
Read More..>>On the Red Carpet – Attending the Oscars for Student Media Week
Posted on May 10, 2009 - Filed Under Journalism, Media | Leave a Comment
IT IS not the sort of invitation you turn down. The Number three in the BBC Peter Salmon – the incoming Director General (Northern Branch) – wants you to come to the Barbican in London to see and celebrate the best student TV and film work at the Royal Television Society Student Awards, writes John [...]
Read More..>>Health journalism lecturer wins medical book prize
Posted on April 28, 2009 - Filed Under Journalism, Media, Research | Leave a Comment
The NHS after 60: for patients or profits? by Coventry journalism lecturer Dr John Lister (left) has won the Medical Journalists Association (MJA) Tony Thistlethwaite award 2009.
The award goes to the best book by an MJA member on a health or medical science topic for a general readership.
The award ceremony was in London last week [...]
Journalism student one step cloder to fulfilling Olympic dream
Posted on March 23, 2009 - Filed Under Journalism, Media | Leave a Comment
AVID SPORTS reporter and final year journalism student, Steven Carpenter recently attended the British Universities and College Sports (BUCS) games in Sheffield where, along with four other students, reported on the four-day sporting event.
The BUCS games is the biggest of its kind in the United Kingdom, and the recent meeting attracted approximately 5,000 athletes who [...]
Excellence in Journalism ackowledged
Posted on February 7, 2009 - Filed Under Journalism, Media | Leave a Comment
THE WINNERS of the 2009 Ernest Petrie Prize were announced at today’s Coventry Conversations media lecture in the presence of guest speaker and distinguished TV broadcast journalist, Jon Snow.
Snow presented each of the nine winners with their awards in front of a packed audience in the Graham Sutherland building where the talk took place.
There were [...]
Ernest Petrie Awards for Journalism students
Posted on February 6, 2009 - Filed Under Journalism, Media | Leave a Comment
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THE WINNERS of the 2009 Ernest Petrie Prize were announced at today’s Coventry Conversations media lecture in the presence of guest speaker and distinguished TV broadcast journalist, Jon Snow.
Snow presented each of the nine winners with their awards in front of a packed audience in the Graham Sutherland building where the talk took place.
There were [...]
