Top journalism schools in Australia
Jschool is among top-ranked journalism schools in Australia, with 100 percent of graduating students giving it “high” or “very high” satisfaction levels in the most recent national survey. Jschool is one of three Australian journalism courses receiving the top rating. 2007 survey
Call for a Courier competitor
A SENIOR journalism academic has called on Fairfax to consider a new daily newspaper for southeast Queensland, based on the Rural Press printing works in Brisbane. Rural Press prints Queensland Country Life, the North Queensland Register, the Bayside Bulletin, the Trading Post
Graduates
Graduates from Brisbane’s independent city-based journalism college Jschool are being snapped up by media organisations.
Calls for a second Brisbane newspaper
Rival newspaper groups should be challenging News Limited’s dominance of the fast growing Brisbane market, an independent publisher says. Don Gordon-Brown, co-publisher of community paper The Independent, said a second daily paper to take on The Courier Mail in Brisbane would promote
What makes a good school of journalism
Sally Jackson The Australian, September 21, 2006, p.17 JOURNALISM courses run by the University of the Sunshine Coast, the University of Western Sydney and the private Brisbane college Jschool have been judged the best by their students. All the graduates of those courses who
Top journalism schools in Australia
[See also: Sally Jackson: “What makes a good school of journalism” (The Australian, 21 Sep 2006). and also: “Why we need journalism school rankings” (Editorialiste Blogspot, May 2007).] Which is the best journalism school in Australia? There is no national “league table”
Student Snapshot
NAME: Gabrielle Wheaton Where are you studying? Jschool in Brisbane. What are you studying? The one-year Diploma of Journalism course. What prompted you to study in that area? I’m keen to be a journalist — I’d like to have a chance to make a difference. Are
Reporting a big win
Journalism college Jschool is celebrating the win of 2005 graduate Angela Banbury as Most Outstanding Student in the Queensland Media Awards. Jschool director Professor John Henningham said half this year’s students had already secured jobs within weeks of completing the one-year diploma
Journalism Education: Cultures of Journalism/Lifelong Learning series
Transcript: There are a number of schools of thought on how to teach journalism. Some advocate an in-house training program like the one the British tabloid, News of the World, runs for new cadets, and others believe in a wider ranging multi-disciplinary
Honour for reporter
One of Australia’s most successful investigative reporters, Bob Bottom, has been awarded an honorary doctorate for his contribution to journalism and the exposure of corruption. Mr Bottom received the award last week at a graduation ceremony for students of Brisbane-based journalism college
Journalists tracking diploma
Queensland’s fast track diploma to a career in journalism is being increasingly welcomed by a wide range of employers. The new eight-month diploma offered by Jschool: Journalism Education & Training has been approved by an industry-based accreditation advisory committee, while editors of