Many congratulations to Danny Rust, who has just landed a fantastic job as sports reporter for the Essex Echo. He'll be reporting (no doubt entirely objectively) on West Ham United as well as covering tennis and athletics.

Danny graduated from our BA programme in the summer, and tells us that his new sports editor had been keeping an eye on his progress during his time at the Centre for Journalism - and contacted him directly to tell him to apply when the job vacancy came up.

Let our Media Law Lecturer sort you out.

After spending several hours at the Chatham Historic Dockyard on a freezing cold Wednesday morning, my group partner [who I won’t name and shame] and I walked away like we had just made it as big-time journalists. We had turned up at the dockyard with a clear plan of action: to find the BBC comedy, Quacks, film-set and to interview several of the cast members – which was incredibly naïve of us to think that we would actually be allowed to do so, but nevertheless, we were big-time journalists ready to break our first CFJ story.

It's Xmas in a huge estate house in the middle of Windsor Park!Lush food, amazing rooms, carols at the Royal Chapel (yes, where the Queen goes)what more could you want? Cumberland Lodge is an educational charity that has had the tradition of hosting international students who may not be going home for Xmas and making them feel welcome.

Interested? Tell Laura Garcia (me!) straight away. I can help you apply, and even have a spot or two for free. I'm doing their photography, so you don't even have to get yourself there. I'll drive ya. My email is lcag4@kent.ac.uk

Want to know more? Have a look here:

http://www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/whats-on/commonwealth-and-international-student-christmas-2016

Don't forget to bring with you to Friday's NCTJ law session your McNae AND the exam test paper I gave out last week. In the interests of the environment, no more will be photocopied! 

Click here for more info https://rightsinfo.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk065j1/

I'm a big fan of human rights. Let me know how you get on.

We couldn't help but notice a familiar byline on the Express website's coverage of Kanye West's meltdown this morning. That's Lauren Meechan, who graduated from the CfJ's BA programme this summer, and has landed a great job as online showbiz reporter for the Express - having applied through LinkedIn.

Congratulations Lauren.

So unless you’ve taken a trip off to a distant planet the last few weeks, you’ll know Donald Trump is the President-elect of the United States of America. The more likely scenario is that you’ve been in a weird hybrid hibernation – sleeping for a while, waking up to check if it really happened, then pretending it didn’t by going back to sleep - since the dramatic result of a fascinating, but very depressing election. I wouldn’t blame you. We’ve just endured arguably one of the worst elections. We witnessed two candidates who were not particularly liked face off.

Because I am sad, and also interested in these things, I'm liveblogging the US Election tonight. Feel free to keep up with it through the night if you want, or just check in tomorrow morning for the results.