ITN crew gives class in live reporting
Sometimes, the best lessons in journalism happen out on the street. That was the case when MA Journalism students met ITN crew Ben Chapman and Bill Jones at Birmingham Crown...
Yearly Archives: 2016
Shock and Awe – Baking pie with Ethan Rafel
The third year students were experienced a different type of Artist talk recently with Ethan Rafel and his work ‘Shock and Awe’ – an autobiographical long term photographic work, motivated by 9/11...
An Official Masterclass with Reed O’Beirne
Coventry University’s guest speaker Reed O’Beirne gave an insightful Masterclass on Wednesday, when he talked about his experience in the art world and the different paths that can be chosen...
New TV Studio Gets to Work
This term our level 2 students have been designing and producing their own television shows, utilising our brand new studio space, The Tank. The two groups have each been given...
‘Masterji and Coventry’ – Exhibition visit
As a part of the second year module Community, Culture and Identity the students recently visited the ‘Masterji and Coventry’ exhibition which is currently on show in The Box in...
RTS Nominations for Women of Yolanda & Huldu Folk
Media Production graduates Laura Mobbs and Charley Fletcher were shortlisted in the Student Factual Category of the Royal Television Society Midlands awards for two films. Laura Mobbs was shortlisted for her Final...
Simona goes First Class after TV stints
Simona Angelova had already worked at three television stations by the time she achieved her BA Honours degree in Journalism and Media in the summer of 2016. They included the...
TV chief sees presenters graduate
Back home in The Gambia, Fatou Jassey and Ebrima Jatta are popular stars on national television. But they became celebrities of a different kind – along with all their fellow students...
A look back at Checkpoint Counterpoint
After all the hard work on the field trip and countless hours of prep and planning, students on the MA CCM were finally ready to present the fruits of their...
Free Range exhibition at the Truman Brewery, London
Continuing on from the success of our degree show at the Box in Fargo, the third years also showcased their work at the annual Free Range graduate showcase at the...
Checkpoint | Counterpoint
“Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.” – BENJAMIN How do you critically analyse a space as vast and complex as a...
School of Media & Performing Arts degree show 2016
The result of immense hard work, collaboration, creativity, and passion, this years School of Media & Performing Arts degree show festival represented the very best student work from across all...
It’s about the story, not the platform
New platforms have changed the media and made careers much more fluid – but what does that mean for the way students are taught journalism? Coventry University lecturers Ben Falk and...
Drifting at Santa Pod: Auto mag 2016
You can almost smell the burning rubber as Nacho Salvador writes about trying out the sport of “drifting” at the Santa Pod racetrack for the 2016 edition of Automotive, the...
Blackmagic URSA testing fun!
#testing our new #blackmagic #UrsaMini46K #timelapsing Ready for new #academic year. @Blackmagic_News @CU_MediaPro pic.twitter.com/FZeJEYbj3S — Becks (@CUMediaSkills) June 8, 2016...