Jake Horton's multi-media feature on driverless cars A journalism student has won a £1,000 prize, a driving experience at Silverstone, and work experience at some of the UK’s top automotive publications.
Jake Horton was one of six MA students who opted to take the automotive module at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism. All six were eligible to compete for Welsh Motoring Writers’ John Arfon Edwards Memorial Prize in 2018.
Assignments submitted looked at the future of car use, including autonomous vehicles, car sharing schemes and alternative fuels, and Jake’s work focused on self-driving car trials in the US.
Jake Horton was one of six MA students who opted to take the automotive module at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism. All six were eligible to compete for Welsh Motoring Writers’ John Arfon Edwards Memorial Prize in 2018.
Assignments submitted looked at the future of car use, including autonomous vehicles, car sharing schemes and alternative fuels, and Jake’s work focused on self-driving car trials in the US.
He produced a well-researched digital article with a series of insightful video interviews embedded in the story.
Jake is currently working at NBC News in London, so his path tutor Sali Collins received the prize on his behalf in front of the new intake of MA journalism students at the university on Friday (September 28).
Jake is currently working at NBC News in London, so his path tutor Sali Collins received the prize on his behalf in front of the new intake of MA journalism students at the university on Friday (September 28).
Jake Horton After the presentation, WMW members, including former Cardiff journalism MA students Rachel Boagey, BusinessCar features editor, and Alex Grant, editor of Fleet World Group, took questions from the students.
Set up by WMW in memory of founder member and first treasurer, John Arfon Edwards who died in 2014, the prize is co-sponsored by Porsche Cars GB.
It includes a driving day at the Porsche Experience Centre, Silverstone, and two weeks’ work experience at Haymarket Media with time spent on What Car?, Autocar and Pistonheads.
WMW also welcomed the recent announcement that vice-chairman Simon Harris has taken up the role of editor of BusinessCar, a business-to-business magazine and website aimed at car fleet managers.
A former consumer editor at Parkers, and with nine years in total spent as staff on Fleet News, most recently as deputy editor from 2010-2014, Port Talbot-born Simon decided to take a break from freelance writing when the BusinessCar editor’s role became available in September.
The current holder of the Newspress award for Business Writer of the Year, Simon will continue to balance his WMW duties as vice-chairman, website editor and handbook editor with his new role.
WMW chairman Huw Thomas added: "It was a pleasure to see such a strong turn-out from among the latest intake of postgrads for the MA course at the John Arfon Edwards Memorial Prize presentation in Cardiff.
"This, together with the Q&A session, gave every indication of another set of high-quality submissions for the prize next year.
"All of us at WMW were delighted at the news that vice-chairman Simon Harris had been appointed editor of BusinessCar. Simon has made a remarkable contribution to WMW — not least as the lead on the JAEMP having established the award at the outset. We are immensely grateful to him and wish him well for the future as he takes up the new post."
Set up by WMW in memory of founder member and first treasurer, John Arfon Edwards who died in 2014, the prize is co-sponsored by Porsche Cars GB.
It includes a driving day at the Porsche Experience Centre, Silverstone, and two weeks’ work experience at Haymarket Media with time spent on What Car?, Autocar and Pistonheads.
WMW also welcomed the recent announcement that vice-chairman Simon Harris has taken up the role of editor of BusinessCar, a business-to-business magazine and website aimed at car fleet managers.
A former consumer editor at Parkers, and with nine years in total spent as staff on Fleet News, most recently as deputy editor from 2010-2014, Port Talbot-born Simon decided to take a break from freelance writing when the BusinessCar editor’s role became available in September.
The current holder of the Newspress award for Business Writer of the Year, Simon will continue to balance his WMW duties as vice-chairman, website editor and handbook editor with his new role.
WMW chairman Huw Thomas added: "It was a pleasure to see such a strong turn-out from among the latest intake of postgrads for the MA course at the John Arfon Edwards Memorial Prize presentation in Cardiff.
"This, together with the Q&A session, gave every indication of another set of high-quality submissions for the prize next year.
"All of us at WMW were delighted at the news that vice-chairman Simon Harris had been appointed editor of BusinessCar. Simon has made a remarkable contribution to WMW — not least as the lead on the JAEMP having established the award at the outset. We are immensely grateful to him and wish him well for the future as he takes up the new post."
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