Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies

Friday, December 14, 2012

Documentary Producer, Angela Graham, a Professional Tutor on the MA IJ Documentary Pathway, is helping to shape an innovative online resource for history in Welsh schools.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

The Newspaper Journalism Dip/MA has been named as the National Council for the Training of Journalists’ (NCTJ) ‘Best Performing Higher Education Postgraduate course 2011-2012’.

Thursday, November 08, 2012

Newspaper journalist Elena Cresci has been named Student Digital Journalist of the Year at the 2012 Guardian Student Media Awards at a ceremony in London.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Dis-Placing the East/West Binary: Aesthetic and Cultural Crossover in Film and Visual Culture, hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Film and Visual Culture Research.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Cardiff University and Guardian News & Media have announced a partnership that will see the two organisations offer a new Masters degree in Journalism with Digital Media.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Professor Richard Sambrook leads the discussion in this podcast from the Centre for Journalism. Joining him: Professor Duncan Bloy, Tim Holmes and Jane Bentley.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

After an exceptional year in 2011/12 where the school’s undergraduate programme saw a record number of students achieving First Class honours.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

The Wincott Foundation has awarded its inaugural Postgraduate Scholarship in Business and Economics Journalism to Catherine Snowdon, a Law graduate of Exeter University.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Sara Moseley has joined the School on secondment and will lead on a number of new ventures including the establishment of the Centre for Community Journalism.

Monday, June 25, 2012

Damian Radcliffe, Internet and Society Manager at ictQATAR, has been appointed as a Honorary Research Fellow.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Professor of Digital Economy Ian Hargreaves has been recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours with a CBE for services to the Creative Economy and Higher Education.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

A new report has highlighted the degree to which the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies’ research, knowledge and expertise is in demand by the media.

Friday, May 04, 2012

The sixth book to be published in the Global Crises and the Media Series by Peter Lang.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Audiences have rated BBC Cymru Wales’ landmark series The Story of Wales more highly than any other BBC TV series this year.

Friday, April 13, 2012

The exhibition “Daniel Meadows: Early Photographic Works” curated by Val Williams, encompasses Dr Daniel Meadows major projects, as well as recently discovered work.

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

The Centre for Journalism’s postgraduate magazine courses (Masters/Diploma), have been successfully reaccredited by the Periodicals Training Council (PTC).

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Professor Justin Lewis will be pose the proposition that while consumer capitalism has been a successful model for creating wealth in the 20th century, it is no longer capable of...

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Former BBC Director of Global News Richard Sambrook to join the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies as Director of the Centre for Journalism.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The School has been awarded £1.4 Million by the AHRC and the EPSRC for its ‘Understanding the value of the creative citizen’ project led by Professor Ian Hargreaves.

Thursday, February 09, 2012

Cardiff will host a symposium on March 1st to debate and discuss the potentially fundamental changes that face the UK’s legal and public relations industries.

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Students from the School's International Public Relations & Global Communications Management Masters have won the Students’ Union Build a Business competition.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Newly released Migrations and the Media critically explores the global reporting of “migrations crisis” by bringing together

original interdisciplinary research.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Wincott Foundation will this year offer a scholarship for a postgraduate student intending to pursue a career in business, economics and financial journalism.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

The School will employ a new Media Training and Development Manager in the new year to develop short courses for its new Centre for Community Journalism.

Friday, December 09, 2011

Professor Ian Hargreaves presented oral evidence to the Leveson Inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice on Thursday December 8th.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

School to host an open debate into the recent media scandals and ask where the public, the Government and the press itself now stand in terms of Reform, Regulation and Democracy.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Students from the School’s International Public Relations Masters have received a glowing testimonial from the Welsh Government after supporting their staff-nominated charity.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Dr Paul Bowman has returned from New York after providing expert commentary for a new theatrical documentary called I am Bruce Lee.

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Tara Russell has become the third Newspaper Journalism graduate to win a National Certificate Examination (NCE) award this year.

Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Rhodri Talfan Davies, who studied at Cardiff’s Centre for Journalism, has been appointed director of BBC Cymru Wales.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Professor Simon Cottle’s new book will examine the changing nature of transnational protests and their transactions within and through communications and media worldwide.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Emma Barnett, a former magazine student, beat a strong field of competitors to win ‘Digital Editorial Individual’ at the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) awards earlier this month.

Friday, June 17, 2011

A new 3-year award, funded by European Social Fund - Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship, will provided payment of tuition fees for a new PhD research student.

Thursday, June 09, 2011

Recently published Reading Rancière: Critical Dissensus is the first sustained critical exploration of Jacques Ranciere's work to be written in English.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Two of the School’s academic staff have been selected for prestigious overseas fellowships in North America and Italy.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

‘Digital Opportunity’, the independent review of how the Intellectual Property framework supports growth and innovation, announced by David Cameron in 2010 has been published.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Award-winning photographer and School alumnus Tim Hetherington has been killed while covering the conflict in the Libyan city of Misrata. He is said to have been killed...

Monday, April 18, 2011

Two Diploma in Journalism graduates have been recognised in the NCTJ's National Certificate Examination, the industry’s national standard for professional journalists.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Masters student Evrydiki Katsoulaki has won a One World Media bursary to write and produce a story about the hijab as a fashion statement titled ‘The Beauty Behind the Veil‘.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

This year has so far seen the publication of three edited books by the school’s Professor of Journalism Studies, Bob Franklin.

Friday, March 04, 2011

The third Mapping the Magazine conference, organised by Magazine Journalism Director Tim Holmes, will take place at Cardiff University this July.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

This September the school’s longest established Masters Degree ‘Journalism Studies’ will be re-named ‘Journalism, Media and Communications’.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

From September 2011 the school’s International Public Relations Masters degree will be re-named: International Public Relations and Global Communications Management.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Cardiff PhotoJournalism alumnus Tim Hetherington and his co-director Sebastien Junger have been nominated for an Oscar at this month’s 83rd Academy Awards.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Cardiff Broadcast alumnus Andy Stevenson will co-host Channel 4’s coverage of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships this January in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Five of Cardiff's Diploma in Journalism alumni have been recognised for their outstanding efforts in journalism by the NCTJ, PTC and The Independent.

Friday, December 10, 2010

A breakthrough research study has used artificial intelligence for the fist time to conduct a large-scale content analysis of multi-lingual texts across the European Union.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Magazine Academy names Angharad Jones as winner of Barclays 100voices editorship and magazine re:new as winner of the ‘New Digital Product Concept’ award.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Broadcast magazine has named 2006 Diploma in Journalism graduate Hannah Emerson-Thomas in its review of TV’s most talented directors, producers and news journalists.

Friday, October 01, 2010

Professor of Journalism, Ian Hargreaves, will return to Cardiff University this October as chair in Digital Economy, a new role which will span two schools.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

This month 2010 BA graduate Michael Mills represented the School as a finalist at the prestigious British Graduate 100 Awards and Gala Dinner.

Friday, September 17, 2010

Magazine Journalism student Kieron Allen has been awarded the BBC Magazines Diversity Scholarship 2010 after demonstrating his passion for magazine journalism.

Monday, September 13, 2010

MA in International Journalism graduate Aafreen Alam, has won an award for the Best News Documentary of the year at the annual Indian News Broadcasting Awards.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Recently published, The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives is the first edited collection to explore the genre of 24-hour news television around the world.

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Gabbie Evans and Rebecca Hopkins have won the second Dr James Thomas Memorial Prize while MA student Simon Bond will receive this year’s Dr James Thomas Scholarship.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Cardiff Magazine student Dena Mohamed has won this year's Welsh Livery Guild Travel Scholarship to study women's magazines in Dubai.

Monday, June 28, 2010

The Magazine option of the Cardiff Diploma in Journalism has been re-accredited by the Periodicals Training Council (PTC) for another two years.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

The Cardiff Centre for Journalism is inviting its alumni to the Tomorrow’s Journalists conference this October to mark forty years as one of the UK’s leading journalism schools.

Friday, June 11, 2010

On his first visit to Cardiff University since becoming First Minister, Carwyn Jones AM met Head of School Professor Justin Lewis during a visit hosted by the School.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Magazine students turned the tables on BBC Sports commentator Eddie Butler recently when he visited the school as a guest of the Magazine Diploma in Journalism.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

The Broadcast option of the successful Cardiff Diploma in Journalism has been reaccredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC) for another three years.

Monday, May 04, 2010

The journal Journalism Practice has issued a Call for Papers ahead of an upcoming special edition featuring guest editor Dr Folker Hanusch addressing lifestyle journalism.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Ray Boston who was director of the Centre for Journalism Studies (CJS) between 1976 and 1985 has died aged 82 of lung cancer.

Friday, April 23, 2010

The School's Careers Event will provide advice, ideas and guidance to help undergraduate students discover jobs and careers open to them after they graduate.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Dena Mohamed, Laura Jones and Ffion Haf Lewis are part of the team creating ivy, a new women's magazine for sustainable and ethical fashion...

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Third year undergraduate Chris Smith has reached the final six of Nokia’s search to find their first ever entertainment reporter.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Triumph of a Time Lord: Regenerating Doctor Who in the Twenty-first Century, explores what happened when self-professed fans took over the franchise of Dr Who.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The journal Journalism Studies, edited by Bob Franklin, has been selected for inclusion in the Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index (SSCI).

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Theorizing Bruce Lee, written by Dr Paul Bowman, sets out to explore the cinematic and cultural significance and consequences of ‘Bruce Lee’ and his various legacies.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Hannah Waldram, a graduate of last year’s Diploma in Journalism, has been appointed to a new ‘beatblogger’ position at The Guardian as part of its Guardian Local initiative.

Monday, January 25, 2010

The study Mapping the Field: Specialist science news journalism in the UK national media was based on a survey of UK science, health, and environment news journalists.

Friday, December 18, 2009

The Cultural Translation conference held at Cardiff University on 11 December was opened by keynote speaker Professor Mieke Bal of Amsterdam University.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Rhian Jones, a Magazine Diploma student from 2008/09, has won two important motoring journalism awards, the 'Phil Llewellin Student of the Year' and the 'Sir William Lyons' award

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Newly published Climate Change and the Media is the first scholarly work to examine the relationship between climate change and media coverage around the world.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Global Crises and the Media series examines how the media communicate global crises on the public stage.

Monday, November 09, 2009

The name of the BA programme at Cardiff will officially change with the arrival of next year’s undergraduate students to ‘Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies’.

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Visiting Fellow, Abhinav Garg, has compared the UK’s Freedom of Information Act with its counterpart in India, The Right to Information Act.

Thursday, October 01, 2009

The School’s new Royal Literary Fund Fellow is Sam Llewellyn, who takes up the role from Rachel Bentham, who completed her two-year Fellowship earlier this year.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Two recipients of an S4C Bursary, Cemlyn Davies and Steffan Powell have made a documentary following a selection of S4C bursary recipients.

Monday, September 14, 2009

The conference saw over a hundred different papers delivered in 30 sessions over two days, where new research, new ideas and industry developments were presented.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Bloomberg and Reuters are two of the national and international news organisations to offer internships to Cardiff graduates this year.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Cardiff Broadcast Diploma graduate Charlotte Turner has been announced as the first winner of the AFP Peter Mackler Scholarship.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Researchers at the School have been the first to examine the press coverage of the controversies around creating animal-human hybrid embryos for stem cell research...

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Newspaper Diploma student Jessica Best was this year’s winner of the Welsh Livery Guild travel scholarship.

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

The Times Good University Guide 2010 places the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies in its top three...

Thursday, May 21, 2009

A new bursary for the Diploma in Journalism programme has been announced from BBC Wales in memory of former sports correspondent Bob Humphrys.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Victor Davis the distinguished entertainment journalist of the Daily Express has donated a fascinating and valuable collection of his professional work to the School.

Monday, March 30, 2009

New research has been published by Dr Claire Wardle and Dr Tammy Boyce into coverage and audience reception of disfigurement on television.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Key Concepts in Public Relations, co-authored by Professor Bob Franklin, Mike Hogan, Quentin Langley, Nick Mosdell and Elliot Pill, has been published by Sage.

Monday, March 02, 2009

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen’s (Cardiff University) co-edited collection, the Handbook of Journalism Studies (with Thomas Hanitzsch) is now out from Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Catrin Wigley, Elliot Howells and Nicholas Hall from Treorchy Comprehensive in The Rhondda were this year’s winners of the James Thomas Memorial Prize.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Poppy Bullock who studied on the PG Dip in Magazine Journalism, has won a prestigious prize for motoring journalists.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Deconstructing Popular Culture by Dr Paul Bowman (Cardiff University) published by Palgrave Macmillan provides a unique introduction to popular culture.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies has been classed as a 'World Leading' research centre by this year’s Research Assessment Exercise.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The School launched a major new research project this month to explore current representations of black boys and young men in UK national media.

Friday, December 5, 2008

The National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) has revealed the Cardiff Newspaper Diploma has topped the results table as the UK's top performing postgraduate journalism course.

Monday, December 01, 2008

Global Crisis Reporting: Journalism in the Global Age by Professor Simon Cottle was published this month by Open University Press.

Friday, November 28, 2008

Students from the postgraduate diploma in Magazine Journalism recently received a top industry accolade for their course magazine, Tracks.

Wednesday, November 08, 2008

The fourth National Students Survey has again listed Cardiff’s BA (Journalism, Film and Media) amongst the top British degrees in its area.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Daniel Meadows, Cardiff University lecturer in Photography and Participatory Media, is to be awarded an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society (RPS). 

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Three new members of the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies teaching staff will join the School this autumn.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

A rich personal archive accumulated by one of Britain’s most respected popular and investigative journalists, Richard Stott, has been donated to Cardiff University.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

New research from the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies has explored the impact of new migration on receiving communities in South Wales.

Monday, July 07, 2008

Cardiff University has carried out research into the press coverage of British Muslims since 2000 for the Channel 4 documentary programme Dispatches.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

The BBC Trust’s review of the BBC’s approach to politics post-devolution and of political and social issues in the four nations has now been published.

Monday, May 19, 2008

In an article this week lecturer Dr John Jewell has raised new questions regarding the deployment of Prince Harry to Afghanistan and the agreed blackout between the British media and Armed Forces.

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Cardiff University has been ranked first in Wales by The Independent in its recent Complete University Guide.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Cardiff University’s Open Day will take place on Wednesday 23rd April 2008. The Open Day gives you with an opportunity to gain first-hand experience of life at one of Britain’s leading universities.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Have you ever contacted or sent anything in to the BBC? Maybe you've emailed in a photo of a news event or a nature scene, posted on a BBC blog or message board, or phoned up a radio programme to have your say. If so, our researchers would like to hear from you!

Monday, March 17, 2008

Bob Franklin, Professor of Journalism Studies is launching a new research initiative focused on the Hugh Cudlipp archive based at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies.

Wednesday, March 13, 2008

The seventh Journalism Varsity match football contest between Cardiff and City has been won by Cardiff.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

The School has announced a call for Chapters for a new book that aims to analyse the media and climate change using a range of contributors (academics from a range of backgrounds, journalists and science communicators).

Wednesday, February 1, 2008

In a new report published this week the School has uncovered a massive reliance on PR copy in UK news media.

Friday, January 25, 2008

The School is set to use Nokia N95 mobile devices in order to better explore the boundaries of mobile journalism.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) have launched an exiting new media training course targeted at professionals and organisations in the UK.

Monday, December 3, 2007

During November the School (JOMEC) hosted a 20 year Alumni reunion. The event took the form of the inaugural JOMEC Challenge Cup football match. The game which took place at the University Sports Centre Talybont and was played on the outdoor floodlit pitch.

Friday, November 23, 2007

Martin Lewis, a graduate of the School of Journalism, will present at this week's Cardiff Business Alumni Lecture.

Friday, November 16, 2007

BA and PhD Administrative Assistant Hannah Peters was recently appointed School (JOMEC) Eco-Champion.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

This Saturday November the 17th, School (JOMEC) graduates will be returning to Cardiff for a 20 year reunion. They will be playing a special football match against the current JOMEC staff.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Health, Risk and News: The MMR Vaccine and the Media by Tammy Boyce has just been published by Peter Lang.

Friday, October 5, 2007

The School has been ranked first for undergraduate student satisfaction by this year’s National Student Survey.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Do you want to improve your style – or the structure of your work? Would you like help with organising or polishing a piece of writing? The Royal Literary Fund has funded an experienced writer to work at the School.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

As of the 1st of September 2007 Professor Justin Lewis became the acting Head of School.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

On Tuesday 11th September the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies hosted the AGM of the Association of Journalism Education.

Monday, August 20, 2007

James Thomas died suddenly over the weekend of August the 18th.