Diary date: graduation day

Graduation day for the 2007-08 Publishing Masters students is July 16th, at 11am in Westminster Central Hall, near the Houses of Parliament. (This year's Masters students will graduate next summer, after the exam board ratification of their marks.)

Mondadori publishing group, Milan

On Wednesday May 20th students and staff from the MA Publishing course at London College of Communication met staff from Mondadori, the largest publishing group in Italy. The students were treated to a wonderful exposition of the editorial policies of Mondadori, followed by a lively question and answer session. An interactive panorama of the meeting is available on panoramaphotographer.com

Penguin Bursary for the MA Publishing course

The School of Printing and Publishing at the London College of Communication (LCC) is delighted to announce that Penguin has chosen to provide its very first publishing bursary to be awarded, on a competitive basis, to a student to study on the Book and Journal pathway on the MA in Publishing course at LCC.

The bursary is for £3,000 and will be awarded for the academic year 2009–2010.

Any graduate student applying for and being accepted for the MA in Book Publishing for that year will be invited to apply for the bursary. The deadline for applications is 30 July. Once all applications have been received, the winner will be chosen by a committee of senior personnel at Penguin UK and academics in the School of Printing and Publishing.

Gill Davies, Professor of Publishing at the University of the Arts London, stated “It is marvellous that Penguin has chosen the LCC for the very first publishing bursary to be awarded by the company”.

Helen Fraser, Managing Director of Penguin Books remarked “Penguin is delighted to be supporting the London College of Communication’s publishing masters’ through a bursary. We admire LCC’s course, value the students who have worked at Penguin either during or after their MA, and are delighted to find a way to reward student excellence through this award”.

The new MA Publishing site is live

After some rounds of design, structure and content development work over the summer, the new MA Publishing course web site is now live and ready for the world. It is a team effort, and its contents can be edited by any member of the MA Publishing course staff. It also includes an integrated course blog, where staff are able to post their individual thoughts on publishing-related issues, and a news section (also driven by a blog engine) for more formal announcements and news releases.

Technical details: the site was built using Softpress Freeway and WebYep, with Blogger used for the blog and news pages.