SPA members can now take advantage of an exciting new partnership with Brighton Journalist Works, offering a 10% discount on part-time and weekend courses. Aspiring journalists will be able to knock more than £300 off their NCTJ fees at one of the UK’s top accredited courses, as well as complete the course alongside their degree.
Edinburgh based student newspaper and SPA member publication, The Journal, has gone into liquidation. The paper combined the work of students at seven higher and further education colleges & universities, and at its peak had a print run of 10,000. Winning several awards from NUS Scotland, Scottish Student Journalism and The Guardian student journalist awards, former contributors include
Unless you have been hiding under a rock with no WiFi, you'll know two things. Jeremy Corbyn, instigator of 'Corbyn-mania,' is now favourite-to-win in the Labour leadership race. In other news, the student media year has officially begun after our favourite kind of conference, a student media one, happened (and is possibly still happening). At
Deny it all you like, the hype surrounding yesterday's A-level results put us (much older, sob) students in a nostalgic mood. Our headlines this week focus on the day, without the endurance of which most of us would not be where we are now. Such a constant buzz of information can be hard to follow
The SPA is excited to announce the launch of a brand new award for student journalists designed to celebrate intuitive and investigative reporting.
Breaking news is a much larger part of our industry now than it was a few years ago. Reporting a 'breaking' story - one that is only just beginning to manifest - can be tough for any journalist. The use of FOI (Freedom of Information) is another recent phenomenon that plays to our strengths, as
A student's summer is a strange phenomenon. You go home, argue with your parents, grab that internship with both hands and try to regain some of the monetary dignity you lost during the past three terms at university. But for some of our members, the summer holiday doesn't seem to stump their drive - that splash of reporting energy. This
Less than four months after #SPANC15 saw more than 100 student journalists descend on Southampton, the SPA has reached a record number of members.
It's been a busy week in the student media sphere, earmarked by music festivals and packed full with a jail sentence, a Cameron-NUS row, and a fantastic win for Forge Press' threatened newsroom. Skirting around the various graduation pictures that filled our news feeds this week, here's what we found out from you guys: Headlines
Four SPA members have won bursaries totalling £7,000 in a hotly-contested competition to study with one of the UK’s leading journalism trainee schemes.
