LSJ CLASS OF 2011

Of those students completing their studies in 2011, Clive Rozario (3M Jan) finished an internship with the music trade magazine IQ before securing a bursary from the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers to help him complete an MA in electronic publishing at City University. He continued to write reviews for sites like AAA Music and Gigwise, as well as his own musical blog, Musical CPR before securing a job with Universal on their music platform uDiscover and taking over the aaamusic website.

Daniele Guido Gessa from the 6M course already had extensive writing experience in Italy when he came to London to study, but the LSJ course allowed him to contribute to a variety of Italian outlets as a 'London correspondent', including Il Fatto Quotidiano, TM News and Agenzia Giornalistica Italia. In 2016 he returned to Italy to work as a TV journalist for Radiotelevisione Italiana, based in the Potenza area (above, bottom).

Hal Hodson (6M Sep 2010) had work published in The Guardian, Independent and the magazine Cosmos before securing a reporter's job with Information Age, edited by another former LSJ student, Pete Swabey.  In 2012 he was appointed technology reporter for New Scientist, based in Boston, and in 2016 became technology correspondent for The Economist. Nia Charpentier has been working for Sublime magazine and acting as arts and culture co-ordinator for Shoreditch radio.
From the 9M Sep 2010 class, Lucia Psenakova has had pieces published in the Hamstead and Highgate Express, Camden Private Tenant magazine and the Early Years Educator, while Luca Foschi returned to Italy where he entered a collaboration with a Sardinian newspaper to write for the cultural pages as a freelance. Following a course in war reporting in Rome he joined the Italian army in Lebanon and Afghanistan as an embedded journalist, writing for the Corriere della Sera, before freelancing from Beirut for a variety of titles (foschiluca.com).

From the 6M January course, Gabriele Perrone (pictured above, top) returned to Milan and within two months had landed a job as a full-time writer for a new Italian website, www.lettera43.it. Sharp-eyed fellow students may have also spotted his byline on some sports stories in The Independent during his short internship in London.

Meanwhile Emily Overy from the 3M September course was appointed editor of Vine magazine in Sevenoaks. In 2015 she was appointed lifestyle editor at thomson.co.uk, covering Thomson and First Choice holidays.

Angus McNeice from the 9M January course was appointed deputy editor of the Santiago Times in Chile after interning at the newspaper. 

In 2013 he wrote: "I'm absolutely loving it. It's incredibly long hours since we are such a small team, but we cover national news and every day is interesting, with the presidential elections coming up.

"I hung around writing for them far past my internship, so persistence - and of course the valuable skills I gained at the LSJ - paid off." 
He went on to edit the Santiago Times before becoming Europe correspondent for China Daily UK. 

From the same course Max Mueller won a place in the freelance writers' pool for an engineering trade publisher and Ann Morgan, a freelance sub-editor at The Guardian, was approached by a couple of literary agents interested in her Year of Reading the World blog, ayearofreadingtheworld.com. A book describing her literary adventures was published in the UK and America in 2015. George Nelson was heading to America for an internship with the San Francisco Bay Guardian.