Sheffield University graduate Michael Savage has won the prestigious Cudlipp Prize for student journalism. He completed the postgraduate print journalism course last summer and is now on the staff of the Independent where he works on the comment and opinion desk.
His prize was awarded at the annual Cudlipp lecture at the London College of Communication, given by former Downing Street press secretary Alastair Campbell, and his entry - a feature on a Britain's first mosque - can be found here.

A judge rejected an application for the media to be able to name a 16-year-old girl who killed a middle-aged man by shoving him to the ground, saying that identifying her would hinder the progress she had made while awaiting sentence.
Judge Andrew Gilbart QC, sitting at Manchester Crown Court, heard that the teenager was a "changed and chastened young woman" since the attack and had shown considerable remorse.
He was speaking after receiving a written submission from Press Association reporter Kim Pilling, who had argued that the girl should be named because of the seriousness of the offence.

The Audit Bureau of Circulations and the National Readership Survey have begun talks about possible areas for closer collaboration and co-operation.
Their areas of overlapping interest in the newspaper and magazine markets sparked the debate, which will look at any efficiencies, cost-savings and other benefits to be gained from a closer working relationship.

Government plans to give the Home Secretary new powers to order sensitive inquests to be held without a jury were branded "seriously alarming" by an influential parliamentary committee.
Media Lawyer reported how the little-noticed provisions in last month's Counter-Terrorism Bill would allow Jacqui Smith to block the summoning of a jury and parachute in her own choice of coroner if she deemed it to be in the interests of national security or the UK's relationship with another country or "otherwise in the public interest".

The University of Lincoln's Journalism BA (Hons) degree has gained official accreditation by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.
The University, one of only 11 in England to offer the degree with BJTC accreditation, wants the course to build stronger links with media agencies, bringing a range of benefits for students undertaking the three-year programme.

The hunt is on for the region's greenest communicators. Marketers, journalists, designers, writers and all other media and communications professionals have until March 3 to enter the Northwest Business Environment Awards 2008.
Previous winners include Granada, BBC Radio Cumbria and the Manchester Evening News. Entry forms and advice on how to write a winning entry can be found on www.merseybasin.org.uk.

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