The university's journalism school, whose 2008/9 broadcast journalism class is picture, took the 2008/9 Course Award for "general excellence in broadcast journalism training".
UCLAN broadcast journalism student in 2008/9 Tom Hourigan was named winner in the Short TV section for a piece about dog that could diagnose cancer.
UCF student Nina Saada won top prize in the TV Documentary category for her film on human sacrifice in Uganda, shown below, which was praised by BJTC secretary Jim Latham as a "stunning investigation worthy of international coverage". Saada is now working for NBC's London Bureau.
The University of Winchester's BA Journalism programme won the Course Innovation Award.
Entries are currently open for the 2009/10 BJTC awards - more details are available at this link.
The full list of winners from the BJTC for its 2008/9 awards are as follows:
Short Radio
Rose de Larrabeiti, London College of Communications
Long Radio
Robin Davies, London College of Communications
Short TV
Tom Hourigan, UCLAN
Long TV
Harry Hesp, University of Gloucester
TV Doc
Nina Saada, University of Falmouth
Course Awards
Innovation
University of Winchester BA Journalism
Exellence
UCLAN MA/PG/Dip in Broadcast Journalism
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