by holdthefrontpage staff
Student journalists will be able to compete for £2,500 in prizes in memory of a former student who was killed by the 1983 IRA Harrods bomb.
Philip Geddes was a member of St Edmund Hall at Oxford University and after graduating joined the Evening Standard and then the Daily Express.
He went to investigate after the store was ordered to be evacuated and died in the blast, aged 24.
The Philip Geddes Prize awards, for students at Oxford University, have helped nearly 50 would-be journalists on the first rung of the professional ladder with practical help and by the award of nearly £30,000 in prize money.
Next year a new annual £1,000 prize for sports writing will be added to the two existing prizes, a £1,000 first prize for the most promising student journalist at the university and £500 prize for student journalists from Philip's old college, St Edmund Hall.
Every year a Geddes Memorial Lecture on the theme of the future of journalism is given by a leading figure in the profession. The most recent lecturer was Roger Alton, editor of The Observer, who gave this year's lecture at the beginning of this month.
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