The Victorian Winter Baseball League is offering an opportunity that could help one journalism student get some career runs on the board while studying at university.

Congratulations to Bachelor of Journalism graduate Ashley Fritsch, who is the latest member La Trobe’s class of 2009 to score a newspaper job.

Not only did he survive an encounter with lions and tigers – Tom Maclean also learnt how to shoot TV news stories and even met the German Chancellor while completing his degree as at the Missouri School of Journalism as a La Trobe exchange student.

Upstart is embarking on a quest to discover more about what’s becoming of last year’s journalism graduates. Could this be you?

It’s happy half-birthday to us. Send us your comments, your criticisms, and even your congratulations – we want the lot.

Lois Lane La Trobe student by weekday, up-and-coming Super Woman radio personality on weekends. From study desk to sound board, Olivia Kaleta describes the magic of her journey into the media limelight. Shelley Tangee reports.

The big question on everyone’s lips come graduation from uni is ‘what to do next?’ Alistair Robertson went to China and discovered, through his first job working in the media, just what it’s like to be a journalist overseas. Jessica Rosenthal reports.

CulturalDiversity News (http://culturaldiversity.net.au) wants to help up to five young Australians from diverse backgrounds across the country to spend some of the summer developing new ways of communicating about cultural diversity and human rights. You could be one of them.

It was panned by the critics when first published, but 38 years later Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” remains a highly influential book, especially for journalists. Michael Calle considers its legacy.

Kurt Mason, who is finishing a Graduate Diploma in Journalism at La Trobe, has been hired as a third-year cadet at a Fairfax paper, The Burnie Advocate, in Tasmania. Well done Kurt!