At the PCC Tue 11 July

The class at the Press Complaints Commission. 

Clowning around before the work begins...

Brittany, Amanda, Kate and Nate clown around before the introductory walking tour. Note how jet-lagged they look!

Some of Our Class with Robert Edwards

Robert Edwards CBE is Fleet Street's senior editor. During his long and distinguished career he has edited The Daily Express, The People, and The Sunday Mirror for a record 13 years, before becoming Deputy Chairman of Mirror Group Newspapers. His talk drew on his experience of working on national daily newspapers from 1955–1985 – the last 30 years of the old-style Fleet Street – and his encounters with some of the world's most famous media barons. 

Our first class portrait.....awwww!

Here we pause outside the British Library for our first class portrait. aren't we cute? The picture was taken just as we emerged from a lecture on Fleet Street during the time of the newspaper barons

England's World Cup hopes end in tears

London came to a standstill for the World Cup semifinal on Saturday. Across central London Brits crowded into pubs (and lined up outside them) to watch a heartbreaking loss to Portugal. I had had high hopes that England would pull off a win and our class would experience football fever. 

We're getting ready for ya

I'm passing along a picture of our dorm. We arrived Saturday, and the place is pretty much all ready for you guys. We're having something of a heat wave, although by Mississippi standards the heat isn't that bad. Highs are in the high 80s or so, but I'm hoping it'll break by the time you folks arrive.