Student Sarah Boast wins the 2016 Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship, awarded to a student of outstanding academic and professional merit.
Award-winning journalist and Sky News Political Editor Faisal Islam presented the scholarship before delivering the University’s annual Bob Friend Memorial Lecture in the Royal Dockyard Church at The Historic Dockyard, Chatham.
Centre for Journalism student, Sarah Boast, had to submit her ideas for what she would do if in charge of Sky News for a day and was then interviewed by a panel at Sky’s Millbank Newsroom.
Professor Tim Luckhurst, Head of the Centre for Journalism, said Sarah’s experience as an intern at KMTV gave her real insight into TV news and she was able to show the panel excellent examples of her own broadcast reporting for KMTV.
Both the annual lecture and scholarship were established in 2009 by a partnership of the Friend family, Sky News and the University in memory of Bob Friend, who was the original face of Sky News as well as a long-serving BBC journalist.
Previous Bob Friend Memorial Lectures have been delivered by John Ryley, Head of Sky News, Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC, Channel 4 News Presenter Jon Snow, and BBC Radio 4 Today programme presenter John Humphrys.