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Student wins Prestigious Journalism Award
...and changes the law in the process!

A Bournemouth University journalism graduate has secured her place in Norwegian media history winning the most prestigious award for regional television journalism in Norway.

Magdalena Mianowicz who studied on the MA Multi-Media Journalism course has also secured a law reform for the treatment of cancer patients. She took up a patient's case and forced a change in the law that now lets Norwegians in the later stages of cancer receive free medicine from the state.

Her story of a terminally ill father of five pointed out how treatment in the early stages of the disease was free but patients in acute phases had to pay for their own. The story was taken up from her own Channel BTV and broadcast across the nation which forced politicians to react against the absurdity.

Magdalena was awarded the Kanalgullet (Channel Gold) for the best news story of the year after learning her craft in television at Bournemouth.

She commented: "I could not have been more thrilled for receiving the prize for this particular news story as it meant a lot to me, I got to know the family and I was thrilled to be able to help them as well as the others. This is why I wanted to become a journalist. I just did not know that until then. What could be more important/rewarding then having the power to actually help someone?"

Praising The Media School she later added "Considering the fact that I joined the course without any background from media starting completely from scratch, this really proves that the course works."

Last year a graduate from the same course Mary Murphy won an award as the best Young Medical Journalist in Ireland. She works for the Kingdom online paper.

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