A new degree course in music journalism has been launched at Huddersfield University.
Lecturers realised that print journalism students were also interested in pop, rock, rap and indie music, so now applicants are being invited to spend three years learning about music, its history, and how to write about it.

A record number of entries received for the AOP Online Publishing Awards 2005 reflects the buoyant mood of the online industry, according to the organisers.
More than 200 entries have been received from the UK’s leading web publishers, as newspaper, magazine, broadcasting and pureplay content websites go head-to-head.

Former Cambridge Evening News reporter Gillian Bryce-Smith has died, at the age of 70.
She joined the Cambridge Daily News aged 17, training as a news reporter before being promoted to women’s editor and later moving to become editor of the British Gliding Association’s journal, Sailplane, picking up on her ex-RAF pilot husband’s interest in flight.

Halifax Courier editor John Furbisher handed over messages from more than 2,000 readers to a company that wants to set up a direct high speed rail link between Calderdale and London.
The messages were generated by the paper’s On Track campaign in support of the move by Grand Central.

Sports journalist George Embley was remembered last month at the George Embley Memorial golf tournament, in which more than 180 golfers took part.
George, who died in 2001, worked for the Burnley Express, part of East Lancashire Newspapers, and wrote for the whole series. He was a keen golfer, both in the competitive and social game.