At the 2022 Student Publication Association National Conference (#SPANC22), we sat down with the Yorkshire Post’s Caitlin Doherty to find out a bit more about her day-to-day working life, and how student media and further study at City, University of London got her where she is today. The City University…
At the 2022 Student Publication Association National Conference (#SPANC22), we sat down with Richard Danbury, who leads on the City, University of London investigative journalism MA alongside his work with Channel Four and the BBC. Richard told us about the difference between data and financial journalism, as well as some…
We spoke to Dan Falvey about how he went from being a student journalist to political correspondent for The Daily Express. What made you want to become a journalist? I first realised I wanted to become a journalist amid the fallout from the 2008 financial crash. I remember thinking it…
We spoke to Emily Townsend about how she went from being a student journalist to investigations correspondent for Archant. What made you want to become a journalist? When I started my degree in English Literature, I had no clue where I wanted to be in five years. I had always…
A Q&A with Amy Borrett, a data journalist at the New Statesman Media Group. Amy completed the Financial Journalism MA at City, University of London in June 2020. What do financial journalists do? From my experience, financial journalists do a huge range of things depending on where they work and…
The NCTJ course at Brighton Journalist Works is easily one of the best things I’ve ever done. In 2016, after roughly a year of saving up and penny-pinching, I was ready to take my first steps into the profession I’d wanted to pursue for most of my teen life; journalism.…
In a world where labels like ‘fake news’, ‘post-truth’ and ‘alternative facts’ threaten to undermine legitimate journalism in the public interest, professional training has, arguably, never been more important for the credibility and integrity of its practitioners. To be able to demonstrate that the stories and content generated by modern journalists is…
Why train to be a journalist? It’s a reasonable question as we read about the many apparent crises in the media. But the answer is simple. We are living in the information age – and journalists are information professionals whose skills are increasingly needed. In the wake of the Fake News crisis, which has created…
Well paid jobs in traditional journalism are ferociously competitive and hard to get, but there has been an explosion in demand in recent years for graduates with financial journalism training, and lucrative opportunities are on the increase. With financial services and The City of London playing such a crucial role…
So you want to do a masters in Journalism to get you that dream job in the media. The ideal University looks set to get you there: great connections, networking events, thorough grounding in all aspects of Journalism. The final hurdle? Getting into that University course. City, University of London…