Contacts from past courses can be helpful in landing full-time jobs as well as work experience placements - and often former students will contact the school when they become aware of vacancies or move on to new careers themselves.
That may be one of the reasons why there are pockets of LSJ students scattered around the country on different magazines, agencies and trade publications, or why those finishing the course follow in the footsteps of former students. A contributing factor, of course, is that editors impressed with past recruits are likely to contact the school when a future vacancy occurs.
Whatever the reasons, a number of 2007 students ended up working alongside familiar faces from past LSJ courses. Jenny Southan from the three-month April course (above) went as a sub-editor to Business Traveller, where Mark Caswell is online editor (see Class of 2005), Kim Willis went to South West News as a features writer, following in the footsteps of Nicola Skinner (2005) and Rupert Smith (2002) and Paul Goatman, from the September three-monthers, after work experience placements at the Derby Evening Post and Birmingham Post and Mail, joined the growing LSJ team at the Adfero newswire agency, working out of the Leeds office.
Kim and Nicola branched out to launch their own agency in Bristol in 2008, Phoenix Features. From the same course, Cheryl Gallagher moved as a Spanish-speaker researcher and writer to Foresight News and Claudia Giampietri worked for AsiaNews in Rome before getting married and moving to Uganda, where she works as a freelance for the monthly magazine African Woman and has been commissioned to write a biography.
Nataliya Vasilyeva continued to freelance for the Moscow Times before landing a business reporting role with the Moscow bureau of AP, while Tom Marchbanks has worked for the BBC at Panorama, BBC News, Crimewatch, Question Time and Watchdog. Robyn Ashman and Adam English both work for the Launch Group PR agency in Soho.
From Jenny's course, Kwok Wan became assistant editor of Industrial Minerals, based in the City, before joining Reuters as an energy correspondent, while Natasha von Geldern has been editor of travelbite.co.uk for a number of years.
Of the January nine-monthers, Jonathan Harvey became a researcher/producer with the Today programme on Radio 4, Nova Maxwell worked for Adfero before becoming an online sub-editor for the National Archives at Kew and Rachel Bull joined the National Magazine Company. Sonam Mishra had her first book, 9 to 5 Food, published in 2010.
From the January six-monthers, Salvatore Landolina is a football journalist covering the Italian leagues for the football website goal.com while freelancing for Setanta Sports News. He was appointed news manager of goal.com in 2009. From the three-monthers starting at the same time, Sarah Charlton gained an internship with CNN before landing a job with ITV Local, the regional online web video service.
Of Sarah's coursemates, David Mitchell is a sub-editor on Shooting Times and Country magazine, Peter Salisbury worked for ICIS, the global chemical industry news feed, before moving to the Middle East Economic Digest in Dubai, Neil Sheppard works for a pharmaceuticals B2B based in Hammersmith and Laura Stavro-Beauchamp joined Mortgage Strategy magazine before moving to dealReporter, one of the FT's news services.
Among the September nine-monthers, Andre Paino works for the Brazilian broadcaster SBT and Vanessa Stevens is press officer for the European Council on Foreign Relations.
From the September six-monthers, Sarah Fisher got a job with the Pepperdine University PR team back home in the States (and has a web presence on nuggetoftruth at wordpress.com) while Mark Sansom did some work experience at an Essex paper for some months before joining the Square Meal magazine restaurant and lifestyle guide, where he later became a features writer and news and online editor. In 2011 he moved to Men's Health magazine, where he is deputy features editor, working alongside features editor and fellow LSJ student Dave Morton (2006).
From the September six-monthers, Sarah Fisher got a job with the Pepperdine University PR team back home in the States (and has a web presence on nuggetoftruth at wordpress.com) while Mark Sansom did some work experience at an Essex paper for some months before joining the Square Meal magazine restaurant and lifestyle guide, where he later became a features writer and news and online editor. In 2011 he moved to Men's Health magazine, where he is deputy features editor, working alongside features editor and fellow LSJ student Dave Morton (2006).
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