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Community news reporters learn cutting-edge social media skills at three-day Meta bootcamp

Community reporters have learnt cutting-edge skills and social media tools for news-gathering and promotion at a bootcamp run by Meta. Reporters recruited through the Community News Project were invited to a three-day virtual bootcamp, which ended today, to grow their knowledge and understanding in a range of subjects, including video production, audience development and journalism […]

4,200 apply for 82 Community News Project vacancies

After just a couple of years working on successful training projects with Facebook, the NCTJ is now a partner in the £4.5m Community News Project to help local journalism continue to thrive in a digital age

Resilience training to be delivered to students on all NCTJ-accredited courses

Students on accredited courses must be given resilience training to cope with the demands of real-world journalism, says the NCTJ and its accredited course leaders. The NCTJ has updated its performance standards for accredited courses to ensure students are adequately supported to deal with challenging scenarios in training and assessments, and to prepare them for […]

Reporters sit first senior exams of 2015

Ninety trainees sat the National Qualification in Journalism (NQJ) for reporters and five sports journalists sat the National Certificate Examination (NCE) for sports reporters on Friday hoping to gain senior reporter status.

My work experience with the BBC in London

“As the first recipient of the Claire Prosser Bursary Award, your university fees will be taken care of and you’ll be doing lots of work experience. Your first week is with the BBC...in London.”

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