Student Exploitation

Motivated journalism students like myself will take on work placements to gain experience. But are newspapers exploting this? The National Union of Journalists tackle the issue of lengthy work experience placements which are unpaid.
Mike Ward, the head of journalism at the University of Central Lancashire, speaks about the issue on www.journalism.co.uk
Having been to four [...]

All work and some play

I thought that Summer holidays were supposed to be for resting. I’ve just completed my fourth work experience placement which was two weeks at the Lancashire Evening Post in my university city of Preston. My presence was the catalyst for them to create a new section on their website called “The [...]