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25/06/2007
UU journalist student shortlisted for national prize
A University of Ulster journalism student has been shortlisted for a national award for the third time in eight months.
Adam Kula, who holds an MA in Journalism, has been shortlisted for the UK Press Gazette/Reuters Student Journalism Award for News Writing. This is one of the most contested categories in these prestigious annual awards announved by Reuters London at a gala dinner in early July.
Amongst Kula’s articles was one on post-conflict Liberia, Africa, from where he reported in January for The Irish Times. Another was his investigation while on a Belfast Telegraph placement on emission levels of aircraft in Northern Ireland.
Kula won the UNHCR/The Irish Times student journalism award in November and was shortlisted in two categories for Ireland’s Smedia awards in April.
Two other students on the course were also shortlisted in the competition.
According to journalism tutor Colm Murphy, this is the fourth successive year that University of Ulster post-graduate journalism students have been shortlisted for national student journalism awards.
(JM/KMcA)
Adam Kula, who holds an MA in Journalism, has been shortlisted for the UK Press Gazette/Reuters Student Journalism Award for News Writing. This is one of the most contested categories in these prestigious annual awards announved by Reuters London at a gala dinner in early July.
Amongst Kula’s articles was one on post-conflict Liberia, Africa, from where he reported in January for The Irish Times. Another was his investigation while on a Belfast Telegraph placement on emission levels of aircraft in Northern Ireland.
Kula won the UNHCR/The Irish Times student journalism award in November and was shortlisted in two categories for Ireland’s Smedia awards in April.
Two other students on the course were also shortlisted in the competition.
According to journalism tutor Colm Murphy, this is the fourth successive year that University of Ulster post-graduate journalism students have been shortlisted for national student journalism awards.
(JM/KMcA)
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