NASUWT: Exciting chance for talented young journalists to report on London 2012 Paralympics
Budding young journalists are being offered the exciting opportunity to report from the Paralympic Games as part of a fantastic competition run by the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union.
Held jointly with the Paralympic Post, ten British students aged 16-19 will join hundreds of sports journalists from around the world to report on the 12-day spectacular, to be held in London from August 29 to September 9.
As well as reporting from the events and press conferences they will have the opportunity to interview athletes, politicians and celebrities.
They will be selected by a renowned jury consisting of NASUWT Officers including John Rimmer, NASUWT President, Paula Roe, NASUWT Senior Vice President, Brian Cookson, NASUWT National Treasurer, Pete Henshaw, Editor of SecEd magazine, Doug Wills, Managing Editor London Evening Standard, and Ann Cutcliffe OBE, Vice-Chair and Board Member of the British Paralympic Association.
Along with ten pupils from Germany the winners will receive media training before attending the Games. Supported by professional sports journalists, they will then contribute to the Paralympic Post, a newspaper project that will be distributed nationally in the UK and Germany during the Paralympic Games.
Chris Keates, NASUWT General Secretary, said: “The Paralympic Post offers talented students a great opportunity to visit the Paralympics, broaden their horizon and gain experience as a journalist.”
Lord Sebastian Coe, Chairman of the London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) was interviewed by the Paralympic Post Vancouver 2010 and said: “I am pleased that the international Paralympic Post created by secondary school students will also be produced at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.”
Ann Cutcliffe added: “We are hoping that all students participating in the competition will challenge their views on disabled sports.”
Notes to Editors
The Paralympic Post project was started at the Paralympic Games in Athens 2004 and has been published periodically ever since.
The Paralympic Post Vancouver 2010 was awarded the "World Young Reader Prize" by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).
For more information about the competition, visit www.nasuwt.org.uk/ParalympicPost
Press contacts:
Stuart Gannon
Karin Preugschat
NASUWT Press Office
Paralympic Post
020 7420 9681.
+49-228-909089-15.
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