Journalists from the Derby Telegraph helped to collect over £1,100 in just one day as part of the paper’s clean water campaign.

Reporters joined volunteers from the Aquabox charity in the city’s main shopping centre to raise money and awareness about the daily’s Give Water, Give Life campaign.

The £1,161.90 collected will go towards the target total of £138,000.

Aquabox sends purification kits to victims of natural disasters so they can get vital clean water and has recently sent 200 boxes to Haiti following last month’s earthquake.

A university journalism professor has been shortlisted by the Tory Party as a prospective parliamentary candidate.

Hugo de Burgh, from Woodbridge near Ipswich, works at the University of Westminster, is an honorary professor of journalism at Shandong University, China, and has written a book on investigative journalism.

He is one of six candidates to be shortlisted for the Tory seat of Suffolk Coastal which is being vacated by John Gummer MP for the 2010 General Election.

A public lecture is being given by broadcast journalist Andrew Jennings later this month. Andrew was famously banned from all press conferences with Sepp Blatter, president of football’s world governing body FIFA.

He will be discussing corruption in sport as part of the University of Stirling’s Research Seminars and Lectures in Sport series. It takes place at 6pm on 18 February in the Cottrell Building.

For more details and to reserve a place visit sports.stir.ac.uk.

A reunion for former Scotsman and Edinburgh Evening News journalists was such a success that another, larger-scale version could be held.

Organiser Victoria Masterson, who worked as a business correspondent on both papers, says she is hoping to have at least one more event, either later this year or early in 2011.

Both past and present staff of the Scotsman Publications Group are likely to be invited.

Anyone wishing to be involved can contact Victoria on [email protected].

Over 30 guests attended last month’s event in the Scottish capital including current Scotsman editor John McLellan.

The National Council for the Training of Journalists is running a sports journalism workshop next month.

Anyone interested in teaching sports modules on NCTJ-accredited journalism courses is invited to attend.

The workshop takes place on 26 March in London. For further details and to book a place email [email protected].