These past few weeks have been hard. When I say hard, I mean that they have been the most testing few weeks of my life - every final year student who has had to do a dissertation will agree with me. Late nights in the library - sometimes not getting in until 8:00am the next morning, all I can say is thank God for 24 hour McDonald’s. Amen.
However, today it all came to an end. That’s it. It’s hard to think looking back that i’ve been working on this project over the past academic year. My dissertation was about the Royal Family, they’re a subject I’ve been interested in for a very long time now and I wanted to do something interesting and a quirky:
Reporting Royalty: Celebrity Gossip or Public Interest?
In a nutshell, the concept was to look at whether British newspapers write about stories that are important to readers, or something they just find interesting. It’s been a gruelling task but it feels amazing to have the copies in my hands now.
I think it’s best to leave this post with the acknowledgements I wrote in my dissertation. Keep smiling x
Peter Smith. No cup of tea is big enough to show how eternally grateful I am. Your guidance as my supervisor has helped me create something that I will forever be proud of.
To Jennie Bond, Camilla Tominey and Joe Little. Thank you all for your time and valuable contributions.
My family and friends, I express my heartfelt thanks for your continual support and encouragement.
Finally, to my other family at the Lincoln School of Journalism. Thank you for being there yesterday, here today and there tomorrow.
Without you all, this dissertation would not have been possible.
Thank you.
The first thing I have to say is; sorry. When I first started this blog back in 2010 I made a promise to update it regularly and that really has not been the case… However third year has definitely taken its toll. I’m not going to bore you all and tell you how much work I have to do (reserved for Twitter), but at the minute it’s completely consuming my life. Right now, I’m sat at my computer staring at the penultimate chapter of my dissertation - the end is in sight - then the real work begins! 
My nose is cold, my feet a numb and my hands are finding it difficult to write this. Winter has well and truly arrived. Like many Brits, I am one of those who turns hysterical as soon as the first flake of snow falls on the floor - usually out of excitement. However, I feel it’s a little too late. A month earlier and Christmas may have felt even more Christmassy than it was. 
Speaking of films, I saw Les Miserables on Monday and oh my word, it’s one of the best films I have ever seen. Having seen the musical in summer last year I was sceptical as to whether it could live up to the stage version. But it did, and them some. It’s definitely going to be the film of the year, everyone is talking about it and singing the songs… You just have to go! Oh, and if you leave and don’t feel compelled to learn every song, lyric by lyric, there is something extremely wrong with you. 
