Downloadable Programme details
Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:11 | 
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The agenda and transport information can now be downloaded from here.
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Travel Information: To SunderlandWednesday, 24 August 2011 12:23 | Written by Administrator |
PLEASE NOTE: Car parking at the University of Sunderland is £1.30 per hour. Park & Ride at one of the metro stations maybe a cheaper option. The Sir Tom Cowie Campus is a 5-minute walk from St Peter’s Metro Station. Car travel directions Getting to Sunderland Air travel Train travel Grand Central ( http://www.grandcentralrail.com/ ) operates trains directly from London to Sunderland. Coach travel Local transport Taxis in Newcastle and Sunderland Sunderland: Station taxis 0191 5555555; Blue Arrow taxis 0191 567 2200. Travel planning websites Transport Information - Plan travel by bus, train, coach, ferry or underground. BBC Tyne - Travel information for Tyneside Accommodation Last Updated (Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:48) Getting to Sunderland UniversityWednesday, 13 April 2011 00:00 | Written by Paul Bowman |
Sunderland University is easily accessible by rail and road. The Seminar will take place in the David Puttnam Media Centre, Sunderland University, which can be accessed from St Peter's Way. The below link can show you more information; the Media Centre is located as Building 34 on the downloadable map. For details of how to reach the venue, including a map, visit: http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/gettinghere/campusmaps/directionstotheuniversity/ The David Puttnam Media Centre, Last Updated (Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:20) |
A Date for your DiaryWednesday, 29 June 2011 12:38 | Written by Administrator |
The sixth seminar will be held at The David Puttnam Media Centre, Sunderland University, on Wednesday, September 14.
This final seminar in the series will focus on the role of journalism educators in widening diversity in the news industry. Details of speakers and the issues they will address will be posted as they are put in place but you can book now at the following link: http://media.ncl.ac.uk/diversity/book-a-place
Last Updated (Wednesday, 29 June 2011 12:55) Seminar 2: Introduction and issuesThursday, 15 July 2010 13:16 | Written by David Baines |
A BIT OF BACKGROUND Mike Jempson (Journalism Policy & Practice Research Group, UWE) I began my professional life as a journalist during the 1970s in the ethnic melting pot that is London’s East End, as rich in racism then as it still is in cultural diversity. There were no Afro- At the start of the 1980s when we set up East End News (EEN), our aim was to ensure that its Last Updated (Thursday, 15 July 2010 13:58) |
Caribbean or Asian reporters on the East London Advertiser. ‘You don’t know whose side they’re on’ was my editor’s explanation as to why. In those days the media was very much the White Man’s territory. Our neighbouring papers were the exception that proved the rule. The Hackney Gazette had one black reporter, Juliet Alexander. The Stratford Express had Baz Bamigboye (now the Daily Mail’s top showbiz writer), Shyama Pereira, (who went into television fronting the BBC’s Eastern Eye), and a youthful Shekhar Bhatia (who earned his spurs by posing as an illiterate illegal immigrant for the tabloids – no change there then).
