LONDON SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
Student case studies
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Paddy Smith’s journey into journalism took him from the back streets of Bristol to the searing desert heat of Dubai. After completing the three month postgraduate course in 2002, he set aside several weeks for work experience on different papers –from the Wandsworth Borough News in London ...Read more |
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For Laura Stott, landing a dream job on the fashion desk of The Sun came down to one journalistic quality above all others – perseverance. Now 28, she was working in public relations when she embarked on the nine month postgraduate course in 2005, but had always felt she was working on the “wrong side of the fence”....Read more |
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Switching careers was a big gamble for 32-year-old architect Bobby Pathak. During the eight years he spent designing hotel interiors, he could hardly have foreseen that within a couple of years of completing the three month LSJ postgraduate course, ....Read more |
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Sarah Grant qualified as an optician when she left university – but she had harboured an interest in broadcast journalism from an early age. Helping out friends on hospital and university radio stations had given her a taste for broadcasting and the LSJ postgraduate diploma course seemed a logical way to explore the possibility ...Read more |
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For Chicago journalism student Karen Budell, entertainment reporting was always a first love – even though that didn’t prevent her from developing a nose for news during her time at the LSJ on a three month course. By the time she flew back to the States one of her proudest moments was a review of a gig ....Read more |
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