With so many student publications around the UK and Ireland, it’s to be expected that there’s a publication covering just about everything. At the Student Publication Association, with over 130 member publications, we’re acutely aware of the diversity in genres, styles and designs which student publications represent, but there is…
Student journalism often works best when it focuses on issues at the heart of its readership and when the stories can’t be read elsewhere. The most successful stories in the news section of a student publication are those which are original and have a clear focus on the institution at…
Editors are constantly stuck in the same predicament: should we focus more on news which is important, or should we focus more on news which our readers find interesting? Unfortunately, far too often these two criteria of a news story are not synonymous. A very important news story might break…
Last week two stories were published by the Press Gazette on very similar topics. The subject of one: ‘newspaper copies a story from another publisher but doesn’t have to pay copyright’ The subject of the other: ‘a newspaper copies a story from another publisher and is forced to pay for…