Welcome to the University of East Anglia’s award-winning student journalism website.
This website contains the best stories produced by students on our broadcast journalism courses.
If you have been contacted by one of our students for an interview and would like to know more about how your data will be used click here.
Check out our amazing Broadcast House facility in Norwich City Centre here.
Award Winning
Our site won the prize for Best Online News Site at the Broadcast Journalism Training Council Awards 2023.
Our Courses
BA Broadcast and Multimedia Journalism
This 3-year course is accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC) and prepares students for careers in journalism, broadcasting, social media, PR and communications.
MA Broadcast and Digital Journalism
This intensive course is for people with no prior study of journalism and who would like to work as a journalist in the UK or work in digital media. It is full-time for 1 year or part-time for 2 years.
Our Facilities
Our Staff
Clare Precey
Course Director & Journalism Lecturer
Email: c.precey@uea.ac.uk
Clare Precey is a former national BBC radio reporter, presenter and producer. She has worked as a presenter and reporter for local BBC and commercial radio stations in London, and worked for the BBC’s senior radio news management team.
Clare holds the NCTJ certificate and a post-graduate certificate in Higher Education. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has been teaching journalism since 2008.
Julian Sturdy
Lecturer
Email: j.sturdy@uea.ac.uk
Julian Sturdy is an award-winning journalist with 35 years’ experience working across television, radio, online, and newspapers.
Specialising in investigations, his original journalism has made international headlines, and appeared across most network BBC outlets.
He has won national awards including a Royal Television Society Award for best documentary; Nominated in the Radio Academy Awards; Short-listed five times in the British Journalism Awards 2016-2019.
Barnie Choudhury
Lecturer
Email: b.choudhury@uea.ac.uk
Barnie Choudhury is an award-winning journalist and communications consultant.
He was a BBC journalist for 24 years and won several industry awards for his reporting of diverse communities.
Barnie is currently editor-at-large for Eastern Eye, Britain’s number one south Asian national newspaper.
His specialisms are radio, television, online, investigations and data-driven human-interest journalism, and his work has changed public policy and created UK laws.
Jenny Kirk
Lecturer
Email: jenny.kirk@uea.ac.uk
Jenny Kirk splits her time between UEA and the BBC where she is a Senior Journalist at Look East. She is a presenter, producer and reporter, she also films and edits her own pieces.
Jenny has extensive experience working in TV and radio – at the BBC as well as ITV and in the commercial radio sector.
Before becoming a journalist, she worked in education as a secondary school English and Drama teacher. Jenny divides her time each week between the UEA and the BBC, keeping her up to date with current industry practice and actively involved in a news environment.
