THE CULTURE, Media and Sports Minister was in the city yesterday to visit the North West’s only media academy.
Andy Burnham spent time at Liverpool John Moores Skillset Media Academy, run alongside Liverpool Community College on the city’s Innovation Park.
He toured the academy, offering state-of-the-art facilities for TV and inter-active multimedia training.
Mr Burnham, who once wanted to be a reporter and was turned down for a job at the Daily Post in the early 1990s, said it was “brilliant”.
The academy received its official status in December 2007 and is one of only 17 nationwide specialising in media.
Mr Burnham added: “This academy is brilliant, these are skills for the future and the kind of skills that aren’t just going to be useful in journalism but across the whole industry.”
Reflecting on the future of journalism, he said: “I think newspapers are really important, sometimes people exaggerate the pace of public change.
“In a world of change, people like the things they know.’’
