Journalism

Learning about journalism at Preston is a lot like working as a journalist. Our courses offer an experience that is exciting, varied, fast-moving and challenging. Students on these vocationally-orientated courses develop the journalism skills of researching, reporting, writing and production. These practical elements are underpinned by study of the work of journalists, including the development of news organisations, news values, sources, language, regulation, ethics and the uses and influences of news. The Department has a long history in journalism teaching. It has close links with the media industries and professional journalists and editors frequently visit Preston to meet and work with our students. The Department continues to expand and diversify, offering new career-centred opportunities to learn about journalism in all its forms. It is a member of the European Journalism Training Association and has a growing international reputation through its new international journalism programmes and links with journalism schools across the world. These links enable students to undertake foreign visits and exchange programmes. The teaching staff comprises professional journalists who have worked in national and regional media and who are increasingly informing their teaching with individual research. Our students use modern digital TV, radio, online and print production facilities. The majority of graduates seek careers in professional journalism and have succeeded in gaining …
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During early summer of 1967, Paul McCartney had admitted to an inquiring reporter that he had used LSD. This became a controversial issue, and a springboard for discussing the responsibilities of celebrities and journalists. The following segment was filmed on June 19th 1967 as a British TV-news interview, and was broadcast in Britain later that evening. Paul had just turned 25 the previous day. ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ had only been newly released just two weeks prior to this interview. So this was a potentially risky decision on Paul’s part to make this public announcement now. The Stones were being busted left and right, Jimi Hendrix had made his gigantic presence known in London and forever more at Monterey, and the Who were just about to crash into the US conscience at that same event. Big Year 1967. Here is a transcript of this interview: www.geocities.com Note: this upload is for historical purpose and hopefully entertainment as well. I don’t own the footage [but it's readily available on the internet] and am posting for enjoyment of the fans. Beatle Side note: This interview is also noted in the Beatles Anthology and, according to inside recollection of the reaction to Paul’s surprise admission, both John and George were piqued at this sudden attention to their private lives and LSD. Especially since they had been far more experimental in their ‘testing’ of its effects, and were perfectly willing to keep it private up to this point.