LSJ CLASS OF 2010

Perhaps the single most ambitious project undertaken by a student in 2010 was the 40,000-mile, four-year, round-the-world bike trek undertaken by Charlie Walker from the 3M Sep 2009 class. Charlie started working for the Daily Express travel desk before embarking on his epic journey in July 2010, since when he has continued to chronicle his exploits on charliewalkerexplore.co.uk.

Of the 3M January class, Robbie Blakeley departed for Brazil, where he contributed sports stories to the Rio Times, while Niamh Griffin became the latest in a long succession of LSJ students to head west to Bristol as a features writer for South West News and Sport. Robbie was later appointed senior sports reporter for the Rio Times and Niamh moved to IPC Media as a senior features writer in 2011.

Photographer Kate Shortt made a couple of trips to the Burma/China border on a sustainability project before undertaking another project in Mongolia, while Simon Willmore interned at Canary Wharf with the online travel magazine travelbite.co.uk.

Within a month of graduating he was embarking on his first press trip, a five-day jaunt to Tunisia, including a night in the desert with a Bedouin community. He later went on to become a freelance contributor for Absolute Publishing, the Sunday Times and Travel Daily Media, as well as being a senior online content editor for Groupon.

Adam Leach (3M April 2010) secured an internship with Redactive publishing on Supply Management magazine which led to a staff job, while Sabine Klensch became an account manager for a PR agency, as well as freelancing for a German online business finance and recruitment publication.

Richard Silk works as a financial journalist specialising in private equity and renewable energy, Lorenzo Spoerry works for business and financial information specialists SNL Financial, and Judit Szilak returned to Hungary to finish her master's degree, where she has been contributing to the prestigious online news site index.hu.

Finishing at the same time were Luca Rosso and Claudia Suarez-Gonalez from the 9m Sep 2009 course, who both gained positions with Global Blue, Luca as an assistant digital production editor and Claudia as a project manager.

From the 6M January class, Peter Firth undertook an internship with the lifestyle news network LS:N Global, before securing a staff writer's job there.

From the 9M Jan 2010 course, Simone Martufi returned Cape Town where she started writing for an online site coaching people about getting jobs on cruise liners. She has since been commissioned to write an e-book on the subject, as well as becoming online co-ordinator for a youth entertainment website and securing a Thursday slot on an online radio station dealing with youth issues.

Of the 3M Sep 2010 class, Steve Dew-Jones started work for a council-run paper before it closed, briefly working for a trio of B2B magazines in the healthcare industry before moving to Incisive Media, where he writes about finance technology. From the same class, Eleonora Corsini works in Florence, promoting the European Robert F Kennedy Journalism awards at the RFK Centre there.