There will be a briefing for students who wish to compete for the 2016 Sky Bob Friend Scholarship in the main undergraduate newsroom at 1pm on Tuesday 26 January. The timetable for the process of shortlisting, interview and award is set out below.
Deadline for submissions: Friday 12 February at 4pm. Submissions including your name and mobile telephone number should be submitted to Anastasia's office.
Competition for the 2016 Sky Bob Friend Scholarship opens next week, and this year there is an important change in eligibility. Henceforth, with the sole exception that previous winners may not enter again, ALL undergraduate students in the Centre are eligible to compete. So, first, second and third years may enter.
Students have until 4pm on Friday 12 February to submit their entries for this, the most prestigious prize available to journalism undergraduates in the UK. Shortlisting will take place soon afterwards and candidates who make the shortlist will travel to Sky’s Westminster studios at Millbank, London SW1 to meet a panel chaired by a representative of Sky News. At least one student from each year will be shortlisted.
Archant is looking for a keen trainee to join Kent’s only county-wide paper, the award-winning Kent on Sunday.
The successful candidate will also gain experience on the local Kentish Times titles covering Gravesend, Dartford, Bexley and Bromley.
To apply please send a CV and cover letter ASAP to the Editor Chris Britcher at chris.britcher@archant.co.uk
The Centre for Journalism and BBC South East Today have agreed a formal and dedicated internship programme. Starting in summer 2016, South East Today, the RTS award winning regional television news programme for Kent and Sussex, will take two interns per year from the Centre. One intern will be a final year undergraduate, the other a student studying for the MA Multimedia Journalism.
2015 Bob Friend Scholar Boglarka Kosztolanyi is doing a tremendous job working as a local fixer for Sky News correspondents covering the migrant crisis in Austria, Hungary and Serbia. Followng her successful work experience at Sky News HQ, Boglarka returned to her native Hungary where Sky asked her to use her excellent combination of journalism and language skills to help their team cover the biggest story of the summer.
Working with correspondents Mark Stone, Stuart Ramsay and Andy Wilson, Boglarka has set up interviews and live transmissions. She has wrangled with the local police and she has pursued refugees into stations, across railway tracks and into packed carriages.
So far her work for Sky has involved frantic travel between locations including Vienna, Budapest, Nickelsdorf and Bicske. She thinks Germany may be next. Image depicts Boglarka and Sky New colleagues stopping for a very quick bite to eat somewhere in Austria.
