We've been busy at SPA HQ this week running through every detail of our two fantastic bids for #SPANC18 - and remember, its not too late to submit your feedback on Cardiff and Lancaster's submissions. Head over to our Facebook page for details! It's a short and sweet Splash Sunday this week, featuring picks from our
The Executive Committee are pleased to announce the winners for the first ever North of England and Northern Ireland & Republic of Ireland regional awards. This year is the first year the SPA has organised regional awards and the committee would like to say a big thank you to everyone who entered. The aim of
It's been a strange week. I'm still in full denial that we're into the run-up to Christmas season, despite the plethora of TV adverts and amount of Black Friday bargains on offer. However, shoppers crowding Oxford Street on Saturday afternoon clearly disagreed - and the social media response to an incident that turned out to be little more
Last weekend saw another two successful SPARC events, this time taking place in London and Nottingham. The regional conferences sold more than 80 tickets between them and offered attendees talks from a wide variety of speakers. Among many other speakers, at the Midlands conference the former LA editor for the Mirror gave a talk on
Unless you’ve been living under a large, soundproof rock, without internet access, it’s fair to say that the recent storm of sexual assault, abuse, and harassment allegations has been impossible to miss. The stories about disgraced Hollywood producer, Harvey Weinstein, have come in thick and fast, from the initial article by Jodi Kantor and Megan
It was my day off work on Tuesday and overnight four “breaking news” stories were reported, including the Zimbabwe coup against Mugabe and a bomb scare at Hannover airport. Clearly, I picked the wrong time to be off - it’s been quite a week for news! And student journalism is no exception. We’ve had a student
SPARC season got off to a flying start last weekend as Scotland and Wales hosted successful regional conferences. More than 50 people attended the day long conferences which saw talks given from a number of media industry experts including the BBC's Ceri Dawn, as well as political reporter and pundit David Torrance. The weekend also saw Scotland's Brig
I don't know about you, but I have felt recently that (Blue Planet 2 aside) everyone in the world is slowly losing their minds. With further allegations of sexual assault and harassment swirling through Hollywood and Westminster; cabinet ministers giving false information about British citizens being held prisoner in Iran and handing in their resignations after
Remember, remember... when I used to send these on a Sunday, every week, without fail? Yeah, me neither. I've always found this time of year to be exhausting. What with Halloween, Bonfire Night, the clocks going back, and the mornings getting colder, its all I can do not to come home from work and immediately
I'm sure it didn't escape anyone's attention that your regularly scheduled drop of the best of student media content failed to land in your inboxes last weekend (right guys?!) However, to make up for it, this week we're bringing you a Halloween bumper special! Its twice the size, (hopefully) twice as scary, and we've even thrown
