Students Andrew Thorpe, Bo Daly and Evangelene Dickson inside the media centre at the G20. Photo: Genevieve Worrell.
By Andrew Thorpe. From reporting on US President Barack Obama's landmark Brisbane address to analysing politics at the International Media Centre, University of Queensland journalism and students had all angles of the G20 covered. Nine UQ students took part in two and a half weeks of intensive training as part of a School of Journalism and Communication Work Integrated Learning project dubbed "UQG20". They studied video production and editing, news reading, G20 history and riot safety, before gaining access to the International Media Centre at the heart of the G20 summit in South Bank. The students produced two half-hour television programs (viewable here and here ) to air on the Global Campus Network , an international network of university television stations with a global audience of more than two million. In addition to these programs, the students contributed stories to their own website , took part in a panel discussion with students from Ryerson University in Toronto, and made extensive appearances in other media outlets. UQG20 reporter and Bachelor of Communication student Bo Daly deemed the project a success.
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