Smiles as eight Jschool graduates win newsroom jobs
Smiles all round for freshly-graduated Jschool students who have already found work in the news media. The biggest smiles are those of the dedicated Jschool staff. Congratulations to Jschool graduates Britt Vonow, Harry Brumpton and Lara Lauth for being awarded graduate journalism
Students cover history-making political events
It was an incredible week in Parliament for Jschool this week, with dozens of great stories published by students. To see at first hand the unprecedented situation of an Opposition leader who isn’t even a member of parliament (former mayor Campbell Newman), was a great opportunity, and our 2011 class made the most of it.
Jschool student’s scoop on mayor’s resignation
Great work David Stuart for his scoop in getting the only video record of Brisbane lord mayor Campbell Newman’s resignation speech in the council chamber yesterday. When the TV cameras packed up and left, David stayed put and got the story on
Top journalism schools in Australia
February, 2010: The most recent survey shows that Jschool is again among top-ranked journalism schools in Australia, with 100 percent of graduating students giving it “high” or “very high” satisfaction levels. Jschool is one of only two Australian journalism courses to have
Boost for budding journalists
JOHN Henningham left his university post nine years ago to open a world-class journalism school. The move paid dividends last month when Professor Henningham announced his organisation, JSchool, received FEE-HELP registration from the Federal Government. He hopes to attract an additional 15
How to break into journalism – and a kind word for Jschool
Journalism requires passion and a willingness to be a news junkie, reports Elizabeth Allen Ben Hawke, executive producer of the ABC’s 7.30 Report, lives life in the fast lane of daily journalism. “It’s good; it’s the last show standing in a way,’’
Shrinking media coverage of world news a concern: expert
The declining coverage of world news as cash-strapped media organisations cut costs is one of the big challenges facing the fourth estate today, a media leader says. John Walllace, program director with the Asia Pacific Journalism Centre in Melbourne, was addressing the
Australian journalist honoured for contribution to Asia Pacific
The director of Australia’s Asia Pacific Journalism Centre is being honoured for his work in helping journalists from developing countries across the region. John Wallace is being awarded an honorary doctorate at a graduation ceremony in Brisbane of the Journalism Education and
Journalism support
John Henningham, the director of Jschool: Journalism Education & Training was delighted to get the nod from Canberra to be registered as a “fee-help” provider. “This means that students will be able to get government loans to study our one-year Diploma of
Multiple-year student satisfaction ratings: journalism schools in Australia
The first table below shows the overall satisfaction rating for each university or college in each of the last four years, based on graduating students’ assessments. Institutions are listed in alphabetical order. The second table shows the average rating for each institution,
Doctorate for Owen
Peter Owen, group executive editor of APN Australian Publishing has, been given an honorary doctorate in journalism by Brisbane’s Jschool college. Owen looks after 14 regional dailies and nearly 60 non-dailies. He has also been editor-in-chief of Rural Press Queensland and has
Jschool scoops the pool
Brisbane has continued its reign as the source of some of modern journalism’s most respected practitioners — with JSchool named as the top journalism school for the second year running. But after three Queensland schools (including Central Queensland University and the University