LSJ

LONDON SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM


Student Case Studies

Our students talk about their work

  Paddy Smith Paddy S’s journey into journalism took him from the back streets of Bristol to the searing desert heat of Dubai.

After completing the three month postgraduate course in 2002, he set aside several weeks for work experience on different papers –from the Wandsworth Borough News in London...Read more
   
  LS For Laura S, landing a dream job on the fashion desk of The Sun came down to one journalistic quality above all others – perseverance.

Now 28, she was working in public relations when she embarked on the nine month postgraduate course in 2005, but had always felt she was working on the “wrong side of the fence”...Read more
   
  bp Switching careers was a big gamble for 32-year-old architect Bobby P.

During the eight years he spent designing hotel interiors, he could hardly have foreseen that within a couple of years of completing the three month LSJ postgraduate course...Read more

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  SG Sarah G qualified as an optician when she left university – but she had harboured an interest in broadcast journalism from an early age.

Helping out friends on hospital and university radio stations had given her a taste for broadcasting and the LSJ postgraduate diploma course seemed a logical way to explore the possibility...Read more
   
  Karen For Chicago journalism student Karen B, entertainment reporting was always a first love – even though that didn’t prevent her from developing a nose for news during her time at the LSJ on a three month course.

By the time she flew back to the States one of her proudest moments was a review of a gig...Read more
   
  dean Every aspiring sports journalist dreams of one day being able to write for a national paper and tour the world following the game they love.

For Dean W, the dream came true in 2006 while he was still in his 20s – thanks to a lucky break and several years of hard graft for a sports agency...Read more

STUDENT COMMENTS

...and most importantly, by your honest practical advice and wisdom!
Sarah J.

I just wanted you to know that I didn't do anything for the first year as I had just had a baby. But, this summer I approached some editors and I am now having to refuse work I'm so busy! I've written for an in-flight magazine, hotel magazines, and many womens glossy's. The money I paid for my course was more than doubled in writing just a few articles!...
Helga F..

I'm absolutely snowed under with deadlines and I have to say the freelance journalism course has to be the best (and most profitable!) course I've ever done.
Petra B..

...the novel I worked on with you came back with a very thorough 11 page critique and the reader saying she thinks I have the foundation for a working novel....
Kathy R.