YJA in the news

YJA hits the headlines!

Our graduates have been interviewed for, and had their work published in, The Times, the Guardian and the Independent, as well as in local papers across London, in youth magazines, blogs and on spiked.

The YJA summer school has its own microsite on The Times’ website here.

Our partners have written about the YJA on their intranets, internal and external newsletters. Stories about the programme have also appeared on radio, including LBC radio news, and in trade publications, like the Press Gazette and journalism.co.uk.

In other words, the YJA is Big News!

19 February 2010
While Kenyan children dream of school, British kids play truant
Pritesh Raichura, one of two YJA students to win a week's work experience at The Times, gets to grips with the root causes of truancy

17 February 2010
Make politics lessons compulsory says sixth former
Pritesh Raichura, a state school sixth former from North London, is on work experience at The Times this week having been selected from members of the Young Journalists Academy to spend time in the Comment section of the newspaper.

14 October 2009
Education accused - a teenager responds to Sir Terry Leahy's "simplistic" argument
Sarah Weidenmüller is a 17-year-old pupil at a local comprehensive school in London and a YJA graduate. Having achieved remarkable results - 13.5 A* at GCSE and 5 As at AS-level - she feels strongly about Sir Terry Leahy's remarks on the current educational system. Here Sarah sets out her arguments...

1 September 2009
Budding hacks join journalist academy
A Lambeth school pupil has swapped the classroom for the newsroom as part of a drive to open up journalism to state school pupils
Lambeth Life

25 August 2009
Budding Pimlico reporter joins summer school
A budding Pimlico reporter learned the tricks of the trade when she was chosen to join a summer school for journalists
Westminster & Pimlico Informer

24 August 2009
Hold the front page for me
The week-long Young Journalists’ Academy summer school is just what any young aspiring reporter needs
Hackney Today

11 August 2009
Want to work on a newspaper? Here's your chance...
Journalism is still dominated by a well connected elite.
How can young people get a break?
The Guardian

7 August 2009
Digital tools for cutting-edge journalists
cScape’s Richard Sedley shares his digital tips with YJA students slideshare

4 August 2009
A bomb explodes in Bermuda. What do you do?
Judith Evans presents YJA students with a challenge
The Times

1 August 2009
YJA microsite on The Times website
Our media partner creates a microsite for the YJA summer school

26 July 2009
Journalism scheme for the young tackles media ‘class imbalance’
The Young Journalists’ Academy is about to open its third annual summer school, a project designed help state school students enter the media industry
journalism.co.uk

19 September 2008
Hacks to the future
Students get inside track at journalism summer school
South London Press

25 August 2008
Learning to avoid the spike
The summer school was a fantastic opportunity for state school students Hackney Today

20 August 2008
Tom battles his way into the press pack of 2008
A student from Haydon School fought off fierce competition from hundreds of applicants to secure one of just 22 places on a prestigious journalism course
West Drayton and Uxbridge Gazette

14 August 2008
Students get a taste of life on deadline
Broadcasters and publishers have given 22 state school students an insight into journalism
The Wharf

14 August 2008
In vogue: student harbours hopes to be fashion writer
A budding teenage journalist has spent a week learning about the media
Waltham Forest Guardian

8 August 2008
Two teenagers who have got the write stuff
Two budding reporters from Ealing were selected from hundreds of applicants for a free journalism summer school
Ealing and Acton Gazette

6 August 2008
Helping London state school pupils achieve journalistic excellence
The City of London Corporation, along with Canary Wharf plc, this week sponsored the 2008 Journalism Summer School, which ran from 2 to 9 August
City of London news

28 April 2008
Orwell turns in his grave
Unless journalism opens up - and starts to pay for work experience - it will become the preserve, not of the best, but of the better-off
Comment is Free

3 September 2007
The noble art of critical investigation
How do you train a new generation of journalists in critical thinking?
Press Gazette

16 August 2007
Paxman be warned: Max wants your job
Camden student Max Klinger has his eyes on ‘Paxo’s’ Newsnight throne
Camden New Journal

7 August 2007
Making journalism accessible to all
State school pupils learn the art of journalism in a bid to ‘redress the class balance’ in the profession
The Wharf

20 August 2006
A week of writing, investigation and debate
The first spiked journalism summer school, sponsored by the City of London, ran between 12 and 19 August 2006
spiked

18 August 2006
spiked summer school to redress journalism’s class bias
An online current affairs magazine has set up a journalism summer school solely for state school students, in a bid to counter the private school bias for jobs in the media.
Press Gazette