One of the most challenging assignments of my degree was to interview a celebrity as part of Celebrity Journalism. Luckily enough, I got the opportunity to get an interview from the lovely Tonia Buxton, in which we talked about her brilliant career as a chef, a TV presenter, an author and also a mother. You… Continue reading Interview with Tonia Buxton
During the second year of my degree I chose music journalism as one of my selected modules. We had to do two assignments during the year in which we had to interview a band and for our second assignment we had to do some music reviews. For my reviews I chose to do a review… Continue reading Music Reviews
As part of music journalism we were required to write a feature for a band or a musician as our assignment. With Eurovision approaching and the fact that I’m from Cyprus, I thought it was a great opportunity to do an interview with the band that was representing Cyprus in Eurovision song contest in 2016.… Continue reading Interview with Minus One
During the second year of my degree, I chose online journalism as one of my courses. As an assignment we had to submit two articles that would be written for a website. For my stories I chose to do an interview to one of our university’s professor who had made a research on BME communities… Continue reading Online Journalism
I got the opportunity to work with SigmaLive English, during the summer of 2016. While my internship was taking place I got the chance to upload different kinds of news concerning health, showbiz, travel etc by looking through international reports. Around the end of June, there was a big fire in Cyprus’ mountain Troodos, in… Continue reading Cyprus fires ‘like living in a war zone’
A talented photographer from Bromley Cross has held her stall in Manchester Christmas Markets for the last 12 years. Amy Gibbings, age 47, chose Manchester Christmas Markets to show people her work, through her pictures. According to her: “The markets are getting bigger each year. I love the atmosphere. The friends I have made, both… Continue reading Meet the queen of Xmas markets
The Trussell Trust foodbank charity in Bolton has issued around 1,992 food parcels in the last six months. After the latest changes in the benefits system, many foodbank charities had been affected and as a result they were in more need of food parcels. During the time I was having my placement in The Bolton… Continue reading Foodbanks help people in a crisis
A woman was arrested on suspicion of murder in Oldham in December 9. Due to the fact that it was a breaking news story and we were expecting our reporters to get on the scene, I wrote a quick article to give the information we had at the moment about the incident. You can read… Continue reading Woman arrested on suspicion of murder in Oldham
Foodbank charities across the United Kingdom appealed for public’s help during the Christmas period. According to their latest statistics foodbank charities are in more need of food parcels around the period of Christmas. Last year saw 4,485 three-day emergency food parcels issued across the Manchester area, with 1,906 of them being issued for children. The Trussell… Continue reading Foodbank charities call for public help during Christmas
According to the new plan for England, medical school positions will increase up to 1500 in order to make England more sufficient in educating doctors. This plan is made in order to keep more British doctors to choose England as the country they will practice medicine and it came as a result to the recent… Continue reading Medical school positions to increase
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