Former JMU Journalism students, Danny Masters and Chris Shaw, celebrate landing their first paid jobs, with football's governing body FIFA, as graduates continue to defy tough employment conditions >>

Stephen Kelly continues to make his mark as a freelance music journalist by interviewing Lily Allen on tour, while JMU Journalism graduate John Hynes has published a book about Liverpool FC called 'The Irish Kop' >>

By Hugh O’Connell & Nick Egan

 Alumni profiles

By Hugh O'Connell, Senior Editor

Jon may have had to give up any ambitions about being a footballer at a young age, but he feels he’s got the next best thing by being paid to write about football for Goal.com >>

By Jonathan Birchall, Website Producer

Journalism graduate Catherine Madden found herself working at Channel 4 just weeks after leaving John Moores University. She gives the inside scoop on what it takes to get ahead >>

Sam was ready to give up the hunt to find a job in the media industry but then found her dream role with a paid internship at

Condé Nast Traveller, working on their website >>

By Sam Rogers, Managing Editor

JMU Journalism graduate Alex Brooker has beaten thousands of people to a top TV presenter's job to be the face of the 2012 Paralympics coverage on Channel 4 >>

By Chris Bradley, Website Editor

By Katie Heaton, Class of 2009

When Katie graduated from JMU Journalism, she went straight into her ideal PR job near her home town in Preston, but now she's swapped Lancashire for the Middle East >>

Radio student Hugh earned a month-long placement with the BBC Radio 4 'You and Yours' programme and has since been given paid freelance shifts >>

By John Mathews, Journalism Lecturer

By Richard Ellis

Dan McKenzie and Luke Johnson secured employment even before they have graduated. Find out how Scarlett Smith and some of last year's graduates have succeeded >>

By JMU Journalism Liverpool Life