Making journalism accessible to all

It was established last year following a report which said that while only seven per cent of the UK population was privately educated they occupied half of the top journalism jobs in the country.
Brendan O'Neill, editor of spiked, said: "Journalism should be open and accessible to all who have something interesting to say and the guts to say it, regardless of what school tie they wear or who their father is.
"We hope the summer school will encourage a new layer of journalists to burst through and stir things up."
The report, which highlighted inequality in the industry, was commissioned by the Times Higher Education Supplement and conducted by the Sutton Trust.
It is the second year the summer school is being run and students attending this year include some from the borough of Tower Hamlets.
They will learn everything from tips on how to write a celebrity splash, to researching a hard-hitting news piece and community affairs reporting.
At the end of the week-long course, which starts on Saturday (August 11), students will have produced an Olympics 2012 article, with the best being published at www.spiked-online.com.
Daniel Finkelstein, comment editor of the Times; Hannah Perry, new editor of Heat; Jenny Davey, business contributor of The Sunday Times; and Nick Davis, community affairs reporter at Radio Five Live, will all be running sessions.
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