I am currently in my 4th and final year at Napier University and feel the course has prepared me well for the media industry.
Possibly the most challenging aspect of the course so far was our Magazine Production module, when I was elected co-editor of Impulse magazine, a Napier production. Our issue raised an advertising budget [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 15, 2009
Why hire me?
January 11, 2009
All About Me
Education
Napier University, Edinburgh
2005 – Present
BA Journalism
- Elected co-editor of 3rd Year student magazine Impulse and awarded highest mark at peer assessment.
- Essay ‘Deception in Journalism’ chosen to be featured in Napier University School of Creative Industries Showcase Booklet 2008
- Writes for Scotland on Sunday newspaper www.journalisted.com/jen_lavery
- Assistant press secretary to Tommy Sheppard at The Stand [...]
January 11, 2009
Deception in journalism – morally wrong?
DECEPTION IN JOURNALISM IS UNPROFESSIONAL AND MORALLY WRONG. DISCUSS.
“Some doctors claim exemption from a strict rule against lying in as much as they on occasion have to lie (so they say) to fulfill their overriding duty to patients to do them no harm. Might not journalists claim to be similarly exempted: that they sometimes ‘have [...]
January 11, 2009
Des Brogan Interview – early 2008
When Des Brogan began a stroll down the Royal Mile one day in 1984, he didn’t realise it was going to lead him to the position he holds today, managing director of one of Edinburgh’s most famous attractions.
“I saw lots of visitors in Edinburgh and nobody who was providing any sort of guided tours. So [...]
January 11, 2009
Glasgow Comedy Festival 2008 – interview with Frankie Boyle & Susan Calman
During the Edinburgh Festival, it’s joked that the real residents move out, leaving the city to tourists and performers for three weeks. Now in its fourth year, the Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival is the biggest dedicated comedy festival in Britain. Over a period of seventeen days over 240 performers will take part in nearly [...]
January 6, 2009
April 6th 1994
First published in my old blog 24 Nov 2006 – Pasteur Bizimungu was released and pardoned in 2007
April 6th 1994
A French judge yesterday issued warrants for nine aides of the Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s government. The arrests relate to the shooting down of then President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane, the crew of which were largely French, on [...]
