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A week-long NCTJ campaign to promote shorthand as a vital skill for aspiring journalists to learn has been hailed a success.

12 trainee press photographers and photo-journalists sat the National Certificate Examination for Photographers this month with eight candidates demonstrating the gold standard of work needed to achieve the qualification.

An interview focussing on an accident at a fireworks event made the November sitting of the NCTJ’s National Certificate Examination for Reporters ‘the most topical ever’.

An MP who, according to Total Politics magazine, writes the best political blog in Westminster and Scotland, will be speaking on the second day of the Journalism Skills Conference at Hampden Park.

The work of a well-known NCTJ Press Photography and Photojournalism tutor has been recognised with a lifetime achievement award.

Promising young journalists and photographers were today rewarded for their hard work and commitment when they received NCTJ Awards for Excellence in Journalism from Helen Boaden, the BBC’s director of news.

A new NCTJ shorthand textbook was launched today at the Society of Editors’ conference.

The editor of The Scotsman and the head of training at the BBC College of Journalism are among the leading figures making up a Question Time debate panel at the Journalism Skills Conference 2009.

The importance of shorthand as a core skill for all journalists was the subject of a Radio 4 broadcast interview this morning.