Edinburgh Napier University

  Simulations are not enough to teach student journalists to react to unpredicted situations and produce high-quality content under adverse circumstances. Therefore, the university needs to provide experiential learning activities and training in real-world scenarios. This article explores one extreme experience of creating a pop-up newsroom as a learning environment to cover a local, riotous game, steeped in medieval tradition. More than a hundred students were involved in real-time multimedia coverage, scooping the established media and creating new avenues of partnership and collaboration.