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HARD AT WORK: LJMU Sound team, with Richard Rudin, seated, in the radio studio
LJMU Sound ready to make debut on web
by Josh Parry
Liverpool John Moores is trialling its first ever official radio station. Launching on Monday the 4th of March at 8am, LJMU Sound will be broadcast live over the internet and will feature a mix of news, music and community radio. Richard Rudin, Senior Lecturer in Broadcast Journalism and Managing Editor of LJMU Sound, is heading the project. “It’s a really exciting project to be involved in. Obviously, as a trial, we’re not 100% sure how it will sound which is part of the fun, and the point of a trial,” he said. The station will be live from
Monday to Friday, featuring music, newspaper reviews and community news from the university and around Liverpool. Presented by Richard Rudin, the station is to be produced by a group of four broadcast specialists who have joined the university staff to start the project. “We are in a global marketplace, both as a university and as a city, we reach out to all parts of the world and I hope the radio station will tell the world, as well as potential students and their parents about the wonderful work we do here. “It will reflect the university’s work across all five faculties
to demonstrate how dynamic we are as a university. We have wide ranging interests in business, arts, culture and science, but it isn’t just aimed at students. “We’ll feature community news to serve the people of Greater Liverpool,” he added. Adam Hicks, a former journalism student at LJMU who currently works for Radio Merseyside, has joined LJMU Sound. “I’m really excited to be part of a project that hasn’t been shaped yet, it is intriguing to wonder what it will turn out like. I’m keen to get started, get things going and see what we can produce. I’m happy to play a part in shaping the radio station,” he said.
The station is welcoming submissions for ideas and stories. If you would like to contribute, please e-mail Helena Eaton at Corporate Communications: H.M.Eaton@ljmu.ac.uk. If you would like to listen, the first show will be live at 8am from the LJMU homepage.
Jail threat after Bulger tweets by David Williamson
TRAGIC: James Bulger was killed in 1993
A number of individuals could be facing fines or even imprisonment for publishing photographs purporting to be one of James Bulger’s killers online. Attorney General Dominic Grieve is threatening legal action after pictures reported to be Jon Venables, now 30, who was given a new identity following his release from prison, were posted online. Pictures were first posted on 14th February and some remained online on Monday. Dominic Grieve urged that the images be removed from the
internet as fast as possible. The statement from Grieve’s office on Monday made the case that breaches of the original injunction, by media organisations or individuals were potentially punishable by a fine, a prison sentence – or both. The original court order, made by Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss of the high court family division,is still active. This order banned the publication of any information that could lead to the revelation of the new identities given to Venables and Thompson. James was taken by the two boys from the Strand shopping center, Bootle, in 1993.