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GCU Graduate Niamh Anderson Scoops Young Journalist of the Year

May 21st, 2013 · No Comments · News

Congratulations to one of our MA graduates, Niamh Anderson, who was crowned Young Journalist of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards. The 24-year-old, who graduated with a Masters in Multimedia Journalism in 2011, works as a features writer with the Scottish Sun. Speaking before the ceremony, Niamh told GCU: “The Masters course at GCU [...]

Young Scot Awards

May 20th, 2013 · No Comments · News

The GCU Multimedia Journalism students enjoyed a glitzy night out at the Sunday Mail Young Scot Awards 2013, and were treated to a night of big name music performances and guest appearances from stars including cast members from The Only Way Is Essex, X Factor stars Shayne Ward, Jayhmene Douglas and headline act Misha B, actors [...]

NCTJ Student Council

February 25th, 2013 · No Comments · News, Uncategorized

by Lesley Roy, MA student Each year as part of our accreditation from the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ), both the MA and BA Multimedia Journalism courses are invited to send a representative to the Student Council meeting in London. I, along with the undergrad rep Sahil Jaidka and our course leader [...]

GCU Student Scoops NCTJ Video Journalism Award

February 25th, 2013 · No Comments · Broadcasting, News, Online, Sport

We’re celebrating again…this time toasting the success of another one of our MA students. Kenny Crawford, who graduated in November, has won the Archant award for top performing videojournalism student. It was presented by Archant group editor Malcolm Starbrook at the NCTJ Student Council at MSN in London. Kenny impressed adjudicators with his performance in [...]

GCU and STV To Launch Glasgow’s First Local TV Station

January 14th, 2013 · No Comments · Broadcasting, News, Uncategorized

Champagne corks were popping this week with the exciting news that GCU and Scottish Television (STV) have won the licence to deliver Glasgow’s first local television station. GTV, broadcasting through Freeview, will be the first of a new type of hyper-local TV channel and is set to provide valuable front line experience for the university’s [...]

GCU Journalism graduate shot at point blank range – all in a day’s work at STV Local

November 7th, 2012 · No Comments · Broadcasting, News, Online

The life of a journalist is certainly never dull. One of the best things about the job in fact is that you usually never know what the day ahead holds for you…as this STV Local video report by Rachael Fulton (MA Multimedia Journalism 2011-12) proves. Enjoy… Special Effects with Rachael Fulton P.S. Rachael…perhaps you [...]

Students test Scottish Parliament

October 24th, 2012 · No Comments · News

A team of six journalism students from GCU enjoyed putting top civil servants from the Scottish Parliament under pressure this week. Two 3rd years, two 4th years and two post-grads took part in a live Business Continuity exercise in which they played the role of professional journalists reacting to a disaster – bombarding the media team [...]

Covering International News

September 24th, 2012 · No Comments · Broadcasting, News, Uncategorized

Kabul Cops, a documentary on Kabul’s Criminal Investigation Department for BBC News Channel’s Our World series, was screened at the opening of a special One World Media workshop this week. Post-graduate and third year multimedia journalism students were challenged by AP TV News Editor, Sam Robertson, to log the programme and consider the characters, the sequences, news [...]

News Conferences

September 24th, 2012 · No Comments · Broadcasting, News

by John McCarthy, 3rd year BA Multimedia Journalism student Paul Hughes, former GMTV news editor, paid a visit to Glasgow Caledonian University’s 3rd year journalism students to talk about the purpose of a morning news conference from an editor’s point of view. After leading the class through his impressive CV in which many famous faces [...]

New Term – New Faces for MA Multimedia Journalism

September 9th, 2012 · No Comments · News

by Lesley Roy, MA Multimedia Journalism student RoofGardenSept12 Thursday saw the start of yet another academic year and the first steps on the road to becoming professional journalists for this year’s Masters in Multimedia Journalism cohort. I am Lesley, one of the eleven new affectionately named MAMJs, who are about to begin what we have [...]

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