University of Lincoln and Lincolnshire Live team up to form historic partnership

The Lincolnshire Echo, the weekly newspaper produced by Lincolnshire Live, published its first edition on January 31 1893, meaning students will have unique access to the county’s most-respected and authoritative news brand. Lincolnshire Live is the best-read news website in the county, with 989,494 people reading content on the site in January 2022 (IPSOS Iris latest data).

The University of Lincoln, meanwhile, has origins dating back to 1861, with the Brayford Pool having been its main campus since 2002. The journalism courses at the University of Lincoln are accredited by several industry bodies, with graduates from them going on to work for organisations including the BBC, Financial Times, Channel 4 News and Sky Sports News.

John Cafferkey, Deputy Head of the University of Lincoln’s School of Film, Media and Journalism, said: “We are so proud to begin this partnership between journalism at the University of Lincoln and Lincolnshire Live. The Lincolnshire Echo has been part of journalism in Lincolnshire for almost 130 years and ‘the Echo’ is where most people in Lincolnshire get their local news.

“The partnership will give our students an amazing opportunity to become a part of that and to contribute to what the Lincolnshire Live team now delivers on social media, online and every Thursday in the print edition. I also think it’s important for Lincolnshire Live to have a base at the heart of the community in the city and I am really happy it has agreed to make its home in the Lincoln School of Film, Media and Journalism at the University of Lincoln.”