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NUS Press Office produces a daily media digest, tracking the national media's coverage of student issues.

Daily Media Monitoring is a service provided by NUS exclusively to NUS members. Non-NUS members are not eligible for this service.

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Welcome to the Student Media Home Page

Do your want to write for our website?

We need your help to create valuable content for our new student media webspace. Several thousand students, union staff and officers as well as individuals involved in student media visit our site every month looking for articles and resources. Have you got any expertise you would like to share? Do you want to publicise the good work you or your media is doing? Contact the NUS Press Team for more information. No commitment is needed.

Student-Media 2008 Contacts

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To ensure that your team is kept up-to-date with all the latest news, press releases and information from NUS in 2008 you will need to register your details with us. Your team will benefit from unrestricted access to all the best resources produced by NUS and selected external organisation in addition to being invited to NUS events throughout the year.

The information you provide will be used solely by NUS for ongoing communications and will not be shared with any external organisations or member unions.

It will take no more than 5 minutes to fill in your details.

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latest profile:

This month we talk to Laura Patricia, Editor of Pugwash News.

We chat to Laura about scoops and breaking news in the University of Portsmouth's student newspaper.

media tips:

Getting material for review
Looking for free CDs, films to review? Here, London Student Music Editor Barnes tells you how

What makes a winning media campaign?
The A - Z of running great media campaigns.

20 Ways to be a good editor
Editing tips from Mark Frith, Editor of Heat magazine.

Tips for Arts Journalism
Some tips for budding journalist's tackling Arts as their specialist interest subject.

Defining and pleasing your audience
How can you make your student media good, appealing and interesting, when it seems as though the students at your college are uninterested and overly-critical?

Student Media and Students’ Unions
It is important for student unions to establish a firm working relationship with their own college-based media

A new venture or re-design
Things to consider when planning to start from scratch

Budgeting and raising revenue
Running student media can sometimes be like running a small business. It can be a constant struggle to balance the books

Advertising and sponsorship
Raising advertising and sponsorship is a difficult business and you will have to be imaginative, determined and persistent.

Recruitment and running a team
However good you are, you cannot run the whole thing on your own.

Design and printing
Designing and re-designing are the most exciting parts about starting or re-launching a student publication

NUS/NUJ code of conduct
Students applying for the NUS/NUJ Student Press Card are asked to agree to abide by the NUS/NUJ Code of Conduct

Law and student media
It is still imperative that both the student media and the student union executive understand their responsibilities.

Developing a code of conduct with your union
A code can help in disputes over freedom of speech, finance and other issues

Highs, lows and words of wisdom
Former Media Awards winners reflect on the best and worst times as student journalists

From student journalist to media player
How some of today's most prominent media figures began their careers as student journalists

Writing for the web
Hints and tips about writing specifically for publication on the net
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