UWS Journalism: Recent Episodes
UWS Journalism
The 'Big Painting Challenge' winner talks art, selfies and secrets with Eleanor O'Neill.
Matthew Vickery is a Scottish conflict journalist based in Iraq, Syria and Palestine. Over the past four years, he’s reported on the complex political and civic situations facing natives of the Middle East as well as the implications this modern war has for the people at home.
He’s written for Vice, the Sunday Herald, the Middle East Eye and the Scotsman, and in January of this year Franchesca Hashemi caught up with Matthew during a short trip home to investigate what life is like for a writer with his ‘boots on the ground’.
Following on from the success of White Ribbon's campaign at Prestwick Airport reported by UWS News earlier in the week, a new domestic violence scheme has been rolled out in Ayrshire. Katy Pagan reports.
UWS caught up with Iain Ferguson, head of PR at the Ayr Racecourse, to talk about why he was drawn to horse racing, moving from journalism to PR and what it's like down at the Racecourse during the festive period.
The National has become the most recent success for the newspaper print medium in the UK and Scotland. We asked our reporter, Simon Thornton, to see if print is still on the decline.