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Investigative journalist Bob Bottom has been honoured with an honorary doctorate by a Queensland journalism college. Director of Brisbane’s Jschool Professor John Henningham today conferred the school’s first honorary Doctor of Journalism degree on Mr Bottom at a graduation ceremony in Brisbane.

Mick O’Regan: Right now, thousands of Year 12 students are pondering what to do next year. Among those with aspirations to attend university are many who will choose to study journalism. So this week on the program we’re interested in how well

TERTIARY TROUBLES: Universities are letting journalism students and their potential industry down, writes John Henningham JOURNALISM has been taught on and off at Australian and New Zealand universities for more than 80 years. One would think that by now they’d be getting

A Queensland journalism professor is in Melbourne trying to persuade Victorians to study journalism in Brisbane. John Henningham claims Jschool is an Australian first, a college totally focused on vocational journalism. It offers only one course — an eight-month diploma of journalism,

Director of Queensland’s private journalism college Jschool, Professor John Henningham, is delighted with the success of the new Diploma of Journalism course. “Three out of four graduates from our first intake are working full-time as newspaper journalists in Queensland and NSW,” he

The first graduates of Jschool’s innovative city-based journalism school received their Diploma of Journalism awards last week. Parents, partners and friends joined leading journalists in celebrating the students’ achievements, which included the hundreds of stories they have already had published in newspapers

‘Can’t write, can’t spell and can’t find a story”: so goes the frequently quoted criticism of university journalism graduates by editors. The editor, as any young reporter knows, is ignored at great peril and the message is filtering through to educators. As

Old-style independent journalism is under threat from the spin sector, writes Martin Chulov . . . Early last year, the University of Queensland abandoned its straight journalism program in favour of a School of Journalism and Communication. The argument for doing so