Congratulations to Sports Journalism students Leon Imber and Millie Hawkins who have been nominated in the FWA Unheard Voices Football Writer of the Year Awards 2023.
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James O’Brien heads Annual Journalism Lecture
Broadcaster, writer and LBC radio presenter James will be speaking to staff and students this Thursday in Mithras House. Read More
Refugee journalists share their stories to Journalism students
Staff and students from our journalism courses have joined refugee journalists from Afghanistan, Qatar and Iran at the London College of Communication. Read More
Learn more about your chosen course through applicant events and tasters!
We have a number of events for offer holders and applicants whose course involves portfolio review.
The course has really encouraged me to experiment, make mistakes and learn from them.
Final year Journalism student Harrison Kirby talks about his studies.
Sports Journalism course runner up in NCTJ Awards for Excellence in Journalism
The course’s virtual exchange with the University of Florida was Highly Commended in the Innovation of the Year category for providing a new teaching and learning cross-cultural experience for students to develop their skills in a live virtual environment. Read More
Jamie Phillips wins top NCTJ award for campaigning journalism
Sport Journalism graduate, Jamie Phillips, has won the NCTJ’s prestigious Trainee News Journalism award in the NCTJ Awards for Excellence 2020. Read More
Podcast: Simon McEnnis – Sports Journalism and sport during Covid-19
Principal Lecturer Simon McEnnis discusses the future of sports journalism. Read More
MA student wins at BJTC awards
Joe Harbert, Sport Journalism MA student, on winning the Best Online News Site award at the 2020 Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC) awards. Read More
MA student wins at BJTC awards
Congratulations to Joe Harbert, Sport Journalism MA student, on winning the Best Online News Site award at the 2020 Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC) awards. Joe won the award for his work on grassroots football in Kent while studying on his undergraduate degree at Canterbury Christ Church University.
Podcast: Simon McEnnis – Sports Journalism and sport during Covid-19
Principal Lecturer Simon McEnnis discusses the future of sports journalism. Read More
New Overtime magazine
The latest edition of Overtime magazine, produced by University of Brighton journalism students, is now available. Read More
Celebrating International Women’s Day through sport
The University of Brighton welcomed teenage students from a school in Horsham to focus on careers for women in sport. Read More
Clive Tyldesley leads tributes to journalists of the future
Legendary football commentator Clive Tyldesley was the guest of honour at the University of Brighton’s first Journalism Awards. Read More
Sports journalism student helps launch new book
Sports Journalism student Jack Stewart is helping author, Nathan Gokhool, launch his first book. Read More
The Conversation
Senior lecturer, Simon Mcennis, writes for The Conversation: Hillsborough: Liverpool FC has got rid of The Sun but it cannot rid The Sun of Liverpool FC. Read More
Visit from Sky Sports’ Senior PR Manager
The University of Brighton welcomed guest speaker Stuart Mawhinney, Senior PR Manager for Sky Sports last week. Read More
Students can join the Olympic gold rush
The Rio Olympic Games have shown that not only has Great Britain has some of the best athletes in the world but also how students can take up top careers to help achieve more to medal successes. Read More
Annual Sport Journalism Lecture 2016 – Dick Pound to speak
Dick Pound, sport’s most prominent anti-drug campaigner, will turn his attention to something he now deems even more problematic, namely match-fixing, at this year’s Annual Sport Journalism Lecture. Read More
ITVs controller of sport production visits students
Story by Luke Ambler, Sport Journalism student
Journalism students were privy to an exclusive revelation when ITV’s controller of sport production, Mark Demuth, revealed that the company were in negotiations to bring live coverage of horse racing back to its channels from January 2017. Read More