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Four newly-qualified senior reporters are celebrating after winning awards for exceptional performance in the November National Certificate Examination.

Two former bursary recipients have fought off fierce competition from over 4,500 applicants to win two of just fourteen places on the prestigious BBC Journalism Trainee Scheme.

The core skills of journalism need to be further extended to ensure quality journalism is maintained and the model of entry into journalism via regional and local newspapers is questionable, according to new research into journalism skills.

Four newly-qualified senior reporters are celebrating after winning awards for exceptional performance in the November National Certificate Examination.

Cait Findlay has filmed snippets of her busy working day as a community news reporter for Cambridgeshire Live. The 24-year-old started her day on 15 December preparing to cover the Royal College of Nursing strikes at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by NCTJ (@nctj_news) Before […]

To mark International Women’s Day 2019 and highlight the importance of gender balance in the workplace – particularly in senior positions – we’ve conducted a Q&A with the following female members of the Community News Project governance committee:

A Metropolitan Police emergency exercise at a football club proved a success thanks to journalism students studying NCTJ-accredited courses.

This is a Diploma in Journalism distance learning module.   *Includes the cost of one mandatory in person preparation workshop   This module will equip you with the essential skills to work as a journalist in a TV newsroom. You will learn how to research, write and produce high-quality reports for TV.   Candidates are assessed on a practical TV newsday assessment. They will film their own news story, including interviews, prior to the assessment day. On the day, they will produce a TV package and reversion their footage for two different platforms.   Please note: your order will be processed within 72 working hours.

"Hunched over an exercise book, carefully practicing the shapes of different letters, some days at my NCTJ course would feel like being back in kindergarten. There was even nightly homework. But I use the things I learned on my 17-week training every day in my role as the FT’s Turkey correspondent."

Findings of the Destinations of NCTJ Diploma in Journalism students report have been published today.