John Thompson Scholarship Presentation

Last Monday I was awarded a John Thompson scholarship at a small event in DCU. The scholarships aim to promote connections between journalism and marketing and are in memory of Mr John Thompson, media mogul, who died in 2006. Two scholarships were available; one for a media graduate to study Marketing and one for a business graduate to study Journalism at DCU. This scholarships intend to reflect a deeply held belief of John Thompson that the two disciplines are critical and reinforce each other.

These scholarships were awarded by Mr Lee Thompson, son of the late John Thompson and former Managing Director of Metro. The scholarships are to the value of €9000 each and it is the intention they will be offered for many years to come to business and journalism final year students who wish to do postgraduate study.

I would like to thank the Thompson family and other contributors for this opportunity.