Jschool graduate is New Journalist of the Year
Well done Emma McBryde, Jschool graduate and Rockhampton Morning Bulletin reporter, for winning New Journalist of the Year at the Clarion Awards. The judges said: ‘Emma went to impressive lengths to ensure a refugee could tell his heartbreaking struggle to start a
Online journalism course connects with Jschool students
Jschool’s new online course has received the thumbs up from journalism students. A survey of students enrolled in the first semester of the 2014 Diploma of Journalism course found an extremely high level of satisfaction with the course content and delivery. Jschool
Uni course fees expected to double, analysis shows
Students will be hit with double fees for some arts degrees and at least 55 per cent rises for engineering and science degrees at the University of Sydney under the federal government’s controversial overhaul of higher education. An analysis of the cost
Student fees set to double as funding cuts take their toll
Fees are expected to more than double for environmental studies and communications students when they are deregulated in 2016, while mathematics students are set to emerge as winners. The federal Department of Education this week released new funding rates for students who
More Jschool graduates in jobs
The good news keeps coming in … Congratulations to 2013 Jschool student and valedictorian Patrick Begley, appointed to an editorial traineeship at the Sydney Morning Herald. Patrick survived the gruelling selection process in which hundreds of applicants competed for a handful of
Online Jschool student to Queensland newsroom
Congratulations Nicky Moffat on winning a job as a reporter with the Gladstone Observer. Nicky, who studied Jschool’s Diploma of Journalism in Melbourne, is the first Jschool online student to get a full-time position in journalism. After only a week in the
Cadet of the year award to Jschool graduate
Jschool graduate Aba Saad has done us proud by winning Fairfax Regional Media’s Cadet of the Year award. Well done Aba! Cadet awarded for ‘adventure of spirit’ THE Daily Liberal has some news of its own this week, with cadet journalist
Jschool grad tracks down Japanese tsunami survivors
Great video journalism by Jschool graduate David Stuart in tracking down Japanese tsunami survivors. Resourceful reporting that paid off with a touching story: https://www.tweeddailynews.com.au/videos/journalist-tracks-down-minami-sanriku-tsunami-surv/19095/
‘Obituaries to die for’
British journalist and editor Tim Bullamore is giving a talk at Jschool next Monday on the art of writing newspaper obits. All friends of Jschool are welcome to Tim’s talk, which will start at 9.30am. From the blurb: “The newspaper obituary has
Emma wins Young Journalist of the Year award
Great news that Emma McBryde (Jschool 2010) has won the APN Young Journalist of the Year award. Judges praised her flair for writing, tenacity and sense of purpose. While she was a journalism student, Emma famously covered then prime minister Julia Gillard’s
Government railway backflip after Jschool investigation
Journalism students CAN make a difference – in this case a change of government policy after a Jschool student investigation. Congratulations Mel on pursuing this story. https://newsbytes.com.au/2012/05/newsbytes-wins-praise-after-bubblers-ban-reversed/ http://newsbytes.com.au/2013/01/win-for-newsbytes-as-bubblers-return-to-city-rail-stations/
Jschool ‘punching above its weight’ as grads score jobs
Thanks to The Australian’s Media Diary writer Nick Leys for kind words about Jschool graduates: Jschool grads score It’s that time of the year when graduates find out if next year means their first job in journalism or a longer stretch