‘MUTATING’ SWINE FLU has re-heated the publics concern over the virus but has the media’s treatment of the disease and approach to Tamiflu as a ‘miracle’ cure that is now with the new resistant strain of Swine Flu created worry where it isn’t warranted.
On Friday the 20th November it was confirmed that Tamiflu resistant strain of swine flu had spread between patients at the University Hospital of Wales, in Cardiff. Two days prior to this announcement Senior Lecturer in Health Journalism Dr John Lister spoke about the Media’s relationship with Swine Flu at a talk at Coventry University. Read more »
CUTODAY.WORDPRESS.COM, the student e-newsletter produced by Journalism students at Coventry University, has shown its wide appeal, passing the 40,000 hits mark today.
Cutoday.wordpress.com started slowly in March 2009 under the editorship of Jason Craig, built as the official newspaper for the Play the Game Conference in June, and has grown steadily since then under the new editor, Marc Johnson. Read more »
WITH MORE than 120 people in the audience, both staff and students from all Coventry University Faculties, the screening of “Kakera” was a complete success for the newly found East-Asian Films society.
Mr Adam Torel, owner of Third Window Films, entered ETG34 yesterday to discuss briefly of his views as a film distributor and to show his latest film, the unseen and unreleased “Kakera: A Piece of Our Lives”. Writes Elena RapondzhievaRead more »
JOHN KETTLEY graduated from the Lanchester Polytechnic (what is now Coventry University) in 1970 with a BSc in Applied Physics; he then joined the Met Office which where he started a career as a Weatherman for Central TV as well as local and national BBC news until her retired in 2000. Now he’s returning to Coventry as a former student to speak at Coventry Conversations as part of a packed graduation week schedule. Read more »
