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The NCTJ has opened applications for six new community reporter roles in a further phase of the Community News Project. This initiative, supported by the recently established Community Reporting Fund (CRF), aims to enhance local journalism and promote diversity within…
The NCTJ and CNN have partnered on an innovative scheme to offer an alternative route into journalism for people without prior formal training.
Journalism employers, including Archant, the BBC, BSkyB, The Independent, ITN, Johnston Press, the KM Group, London Evening Standard and Newsquest, will take part in the government’s new trailblazer apprenticeship scheme.
Journalism Diversity Fund recipient Liz Jackson blogs about events at the annual NCTJ Student Council.
Students were given the chance to quiz a panel of editors and the industry’s training body at this year’s Student Council at Pearson in London.
London Evening Standard digital journalist, Rachel Blundy, said she would recommend a trainee job at a regional paper to “every single one” of the 43 members of the NCTJ Student Council on Friday, 7 February.
Two former student journalists have been awarded prizes for exceptional performances in the NCTJ Diploma in Journalism exams.
A group of sixth form students got a taste of what it’s like to work in journalism at an annual careers event on 28 January for local schools organised by the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ).
Erinn Kerr is a Journalism Diversity Fund recipient who completed the Press Association training course in Newcastle In December 2013. She has since secured a trainee reporter position with a North News and Pictures, a press agency in the North East of England.
A new award to recognise the top performing student in the NCTJ reporting exam is to be sponsored by Archant.
The NCTJ has issued guidance for the March NQJ exam following the commencement of the Defamation Act 2013.
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