After a whirlwind eight months that has seen a fashion show, a protest and two prestigious acknowledgements for the University, the People and Planet Society is on the look-out for new recruits.

I love my music and an old favourite of mine is ‘A Certain Romance’ by the Arctic Monkeys….
Sitting on the train on Saturday afternoon I was made aware of how many intimidating and scary people there are out there, people in their mid twenties and drunk at 3pm. The people that shout lewd remarks at girls walking by, the people that are so drunk they start fighting with their friends. No romance in sight.

Anyone can be a journalist.
You can call it citizen journalism. You can call it what you like. But in the modern age, anyone can be a journalist.
You don’t have to be qualified to write a high standard blog. You don’t even have to be qualified to be published in print. And online gives you the platform to create, edit and submit whatever you like to the web.
But what does that mean for professional journalists?