Graduate Experiences

All of our BA(Hons) Journalism students are wonderfully talented and our graduates go onto great things. Here is what some of them had to say about the course:

  
The Journalism course at Falmouth gave me the opportunity to write about and experience the things I’m interested in, namely the restaurant industry. In my third year I interviewed Jamie Oliver at the Fifteen Watergate Bay opening. This was largely set up by UCF and provided me with a great piece for my food and drink orientated portfolio. I also won the PTC award for most promising student….Read More

My work placement at BBC Good Food magazine was brilliant.
I worked with the subbing team, wrote copy for the magazine, assisted at photo shoots in swanky London apartments, tested recipes in the Good Foodkitchen and had lunch cooked by Levi Roots, ‘Mr Reggae Reggae sauce’ from Dragon’s Den. During my placement I felt fully supported by the tutors at Falmouth, who were keeping an eye on the blogs we had to write and were on hand if we had any questions….Read More

The high point of the course has been my placement in Mumbai with Filmfare magazine. The chance to go to a city as teeming with life, noise and culture and to be thrown into the world of “Bollywood” glitz and glamour was not only the highpoint of the course, it was one of the highlights of my life. The only thing that could come close to this was the week I spent sailing on the Bulgarian tallship the Kaliakra. If I hadn’t been a student at UCF I never would have had the opportunity to do this….Read More

I chose Journalism as I was already reading news in a local radio station and my Editor had done the post-grad, so the degree seemed the logical step. After coming down for my interview how could I not want to study there!? My interview laid out the foundations and what I could expect. I was looking forward to broadening my knowledge of journalistic techniques and questioning media in a way I hadn’t thought of before. Of course there is also the town itself. The moment I turned off the A road in Truro and saw the palm trees, I knew I didn’t want to be anywhere else….Read more

Robin Johnson, one of BA(Hons) Journalism’s first cohorts, is a self-employed writer and photographer who has a varied remit in the live production and musical instrument industries. His work includes features and reviews for both consumer and trade titles and PR work for major manufacturers and service providers. Robin’s working life encompasses virtually every emotion one can think of. It’s rewarding, exciting, interesting, frustrating, tedious, fulfilling, fun, annoying, absorbing, infuriating, pleasurable and generally very varied….Read more