School of Arts, Media & Creative Technology

🚨🎙️ We are delighted to announce that @CliveTyldesley has joined our new star-studded BA Sports Journalism team as a guest lecturer! He will be swapping the commentary gantry for the lecture theatre at @MediaCityUK this September. salford.ac.uk/news/clive-tyl…

📚 Many thanks to all who attended the Northern Writing School at Salford's inaugural Literacy Symposium on Monday! You can read the full report on the event at the link here - salford.ac.uk/news/inaugural…

📚 Lovely to see so many people for our #SalfordLiteracySymposium at our MediaCity campus today. We've got a wide range of partners in attendance from across Greater Manchester's literacy network and some very insightful speakers taking to the stage!

The NCTJ will explore new ways to prepare journalists to cover family courts, following the Journalism and the Courts symposium hosted by the @SalfordUni in association with the NCTJ. #courtreporting #journalismskills nctj.com/news/nctj-to-e…

Congratulations to @rlwjones for a fantastic inaugural court reporting symposium @SalfordUni

Great to catch up with really talented #media #law lecturers & practitioners @rlwjones @SalfordUni @PollyRippon 👏🏽 @UEA_journalism @ShaunLowthorpe @clareprecey @juliansturdy1 @kirkj07 @uniofeastanglia some brilliant take aways to embed in our #teaching ✊🏽

Our Sports Journalism Educators Conference at MediaCity is now live! Tune in via YouTube for a day full of discussions about the future of sports journalism and how the subject is taught by educators lnkd.in/gmpYe9W3

@bysianharrison The full symposium is available to watch live here - youtube.com/watch?v=HJ3ukW…

We are underway with our Journalism and the Courts Symposium at our MediaCity campus this morning. Delighted to have @bysianharrison give our keynote speech this morning with a call for more court reporters to enter the field and for news organisations to support them.

Today we’re at the Journalism and the Courts Symposium hosted by @SalfordUni, in association with the NCTJ. We’re looking forward to discussing the skills, training and support journalists need to report on the courts.

We are delighted that our very own Dr Laura Minor, a Lecturer in Television Studies, has been named as one of the AHRC and BBC's 2025 New Generation Thinkers. Laura will be working with BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme through her place on the scheme. ow.ly/GYMm50WaE53

On HTFP today: @SalfordUni conference to explore future of court reporting holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2025/news/conf…

📝 Our Journalism lecturer Robin Brown writes for Press Gazette on the skills that new journalists will need to have in the era of AI. ow.ly/Sv8x50VWf29

📅 Mark your calendars! We are delighted to reveal that this year's Salford Degree Show will launch on Thursday 22 May. 🎨🎭 14 of the The University of Salford's leading creative arts programmes will be on show across the New Adelphi building. ow.ly/bp0p50VOjHp

🎵✍️ A new website dedicated to music journalism in Greater Manchester has been set up by Salford alumnus James Young. The BA Journalism (Multimedia) graduate has teamed up with Beyond the Music director Oli Wilson and Charlie Stanley to launch Soledad. ow.ly/h95l50VvCvu

🗣️ “If there is anything that we know about The Beatles, it’s that there is inexhaustible audience for any Beatles-kind of project whatsoever." Lecturer Kenneth Longden speaks on The Beatles four-film announcement. ow.ly/B1bc50VsgOX

👏 We are delighted to share that BA Television and Radio Production student Matt Hallsworth has made history as our first current student to sign as a presenter for @BBCR1! Matt, 20, will present 16 shows for Radio 1 Anthems, starting on Weds 2 April. ow.ly/qayL50VpPGh

🏆 Oh, what a night! Seven awards for our outstanding students and graduates at the @RTSNW Student Awards last night. AND a Student Journalist of the Year gong at the @IRNAwards! Read about the winners in our story below. ow.ly/Mx0w50VpA6N

@MediaCityUK The INEFF Festival and conference is a unique and innovative event that showcases the best experimental fiction films from around the world. The deadline for submissions is Monday 31 March. Click the link for more info - ineff.org/2025-conferenc… (2/2)

📢 The International Network of Experimental Fiction Filmmaking Festival is in preparation for its third year! We are looking for academics and filmmakers who would like to submit proposals for the conference at our @MediaCityUK campus on Thursday 17 and Friday 18 July (1/2)