Buzzfeed's "I'm Adopted but I'm Not..." video

In 1995, Denmark was approved to receive international adoptees from China. In the summer of 1996, a round-headed 9-month-old Chinese girl crossed the Danish border for the first time. My name is Lærke, and I am adopted from China.

Out of sheer curiosity, I decided to type the phrase ‘can journalists have tattoos?’ into Google.

Okay, maybe not only out of curiosity. There is perhaps a touch of paranoia in there too. That possibly the tiny red lines on my little fingers will hinder me from getting a job, or that by putting my hair up to reveal the tattoo on the back of my neck I somehow would then be unable to do said job correctly.

Congratulations to the many CfJ students who passed the recent NCTJ Essential Media Law exam. We had a pass rate of over 90% which is an excellent result and a tribute to your hard work. George Nixon was top scorer with 85% and Alfie Tobutt, Ariane Spinosa and Lara Elcheik also got into the dizzy heights of the 80s.Well done!  

IPSO is having a live Q&A on Twitter today at 3pm.  Subject matter is the Editors' Code.  Get involved and ask questions.

For the second year in succession, Quentin Smith, Editor of BBC South East Today, has agreed to take two exceptional students from the Centre, one third year undergraduate and one MA student, on placement this summer. These placements will be based in the BBC South East newsroom in Tunbridge Wells.

South East Today is a winner of the Royal Television Society award for best regional news programme. It routinely secures a larger audience than Newsnight.

Every student and member of staff in the Centre is cordially invited to attend the 2017 Bob Friend Memorial Lecture and to celebrate Emma Rae Woodhouse's achievement in winning the 2017 Bob Friend Memorial Schilarship.This year's lecturer is Ed Conway, Economics Editor of Sky News. His topic is: Trump, Brexit the mainstream media and how to save it.  Please join Emma and Ed in the Royal Dockyard Church at 7pm on Thursday 2nd March.

Interested in broadcast journalism? We are now accepting applications for the 2017-2018 paid KMTV internships. Apply the skills you learn at CFJ in a real newsroom. KMTV will be broadcasting LIVE on terrestrial TV sobre the summer so it's an exciting time to join. 

Send your CV, Cover Letter and a 60sec voxpop to Laura Garcia on lgarcia [at] thekmgroup.co.uk by Friday the 3rd of March.

Don't forget there is an extra NCTJ Court Reporting session on Thursday February 23rd from 11- 1pm in Room G4-12. This is in addition to your usual Friday morning class. Please bring with you the test paper from last Friday/Anastasia's office. 

If you are taking the NCTJ Court Reporting exam and weren't at last Friday's sessions please go to Anastasia's office and pick up three important things. 1. The test paper we have started working on. 2. A general revision guide. 3. A revision guide specifically about the various "sections" you need to know. They are in a blue box file marked "SARAH". You MUST bring the test paper with you to your next session.