Broadcast journalism student Davina Kirwan is demonstrating the persistent qualities needed to make it as a top-grade journalist – by undertaking a seven-hour round trip from London so that she can study at Nottingham Trent University. The MA Television Journalism student takes bus, tube and train from home four days a week just so she can attend the university’s prestigious Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism.
She said: “It’s a long journey and sometimes I have to leave the house as early as 5.30am, but I wouldn’t want to go anywhere else. It’s an absolutely fantastic course, so relevant to what I’m doing now and want to do in the future.”

Journalists are being invited to apply for the 28th Laurence Stern Fellowship.
The winner will win paid work experience at the Washington Post’s National desk for three months in the summer, get their air fare paid and cash for travel in the USA. Full details can be found at the City University website.

A founder executive and news editor of the Indian newspaper the Deccan herald, has died, aged 86.
Eric Scott’s career also took in a spell at the Hertfordshire Express, between 1959 and 1966, and before that, the Hampstead and Highgate Express.

The world’s oldest newspaper, Sweden’s Post-och Inrikes Tidningar, founded in 1645, has become a web-only publication.

The Grimsby Telegraph is backing a Grimsby Town FC campaign to get fans behind the club in its hour of need, as it flirts with relegation from League Two – and faces dropping out of the football league.

Herald columnist Chris Robinson is celebrating 25 years of his weekly column in the Plymouth newspaper.
He’s provided readers with an unbroken run of nostalgia and social history articles since 1982.