Web journalism MAs graduate!...

A huge well done to the journalism postgraduates at the University of Sheffield who graduated last week. I helped teach the web journalism students – a fantastic bunch who produced some brilliant websites for their dissertations. Find out more about journalism at the University of Sheffield. Good luck class of 2012! Iulia on graduation...

Student journalists get experience on a ...

The morning meeting One of the best ways to get experience as a journalist is to, well, act like a journalist. It helps to have equipment and trusted advisors on hand to make sure you don’t libel anyone or miss the best angle. In the Journalism department at Sheffield University we organise regular ‘newsdays’ for the postgraduate students. They have a meeting to discuss the stories they’ll cover then they’re off! This semester the broadcast students are sharing their newsdays with the print and web students on alternate weeks. They...

How do you break a national news story?...

For a journalist, breaking a national news story is the ultimate coup. For some it comes early in their career and others after many years of work. On election night 2010, one student at the Department of Journalism at the University of Sheffield discovered a story. Through a combination of speed, contacts and Twitter we made her story go national – and this is how we did it. Let me set the scene The journalism postgraduates at Sheffield University work together for one week in the second semester to produce news output of the highest standard possible. I help the...