Student Case Studies

Our students talk about their work

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


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

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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A lifelong interest in language and writing drew Marianne to Switzerland and to a career in radio production and translation.

But when she embarked on the LSJ's online postgraduate course in February 2008, it was with the aim of harnessing her writing skills to work as a freelance journalist...Read more


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


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

From the time when she wrote poems as a teenager, Meena M knew that she wanted to write for a living.

Having lived in Bahrain for most of her life, she started sending features to the Bahrain Tribune in 2003 and was offered a job on the paper the following year...Read more


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