It’s been a busy week at SPA towers, but we are pleased to announce that SPANC18 is going to be hosted at Cardiff! There was a lot to love about both bids, and it was an incredibly difficult decision. Both Lancaster and Cardiff put forward fantastic options for our annual conference but in the end
Being a student editor was hands down the best thing I’ve ever done. I applied for the job thinking I was wildly under qualified yet somehow managed to convince Dan and Joe, my predecessors, to hand over the keys to the Concrete kingdom and leave the newspaper in my (slightly shaking) hands. The year was
If there’s one thing student journalists have no shortage of, it’s ambition. You only need to chat to them for about 30 seconds before they mention hopes and dreams of working at a national newspaper or travelling the world as a foreign reporter. It is the driving force of all great journalists, and it’s great
We’re super excited to announce our first exciting opportunity. A day shadowing Elliot Davies, a newsroom developer at the Times and Sunday Times. We all know digital news is slowly (*extremely quickly) taking over the industry – and with this in mind we’ve gone down the online route for our first placement. – So, what
