Proofreading is the art of spotting and removing as many errors as possible from copy before it goes to print. Everyone has their own notation style […]
September is a funny month for student journalists. Half of us don’t go back to university until October, the other half scramble to find a work […]
Covering death is no easy task, as the media industry has been forced to discover this week. Worldwide news has been dominated by tragedy: on Saturday, […]
Edinburgh based student newspaper and SPA member publication, The Journal, has gone into liquidation. The paper combined the work of students at seven higher and further education colleges […]
Unless you have been hiding under a rock with no WiFi, you’ll know two things. Jeremy Corbyn, instigator of ‘Corbyn-mania,’ is now favourite-to-win in the Labour […]
Deny it all you like, the hype surrounding yesterday’s A-level results put us (much older, sob) students in a nostalgic mood. Our headlines this week focus […]
The SPA is excited to announce the launch of a brand new award for student journalists designed to celebrate intuitive and investigative reporting.
Breaking news is a much larger part of our industry now than it was a few years ago. Reporting a ‘breaking’ story – one that is […]
A student’s summer is a strange phenomenon. You go home, argue with your parents, grab that internship with both hands and try to regain some of […]