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4-5 Think again if you’re after big money and 4 7 regular hours. Introduction from NCTJ chairman Kim Fletcher and Press Gazette editor Dominic Ponsford

7 Thank you to my bullying news editor: Times investigative journalist Andrew Norfolk on his NCTJ training

12 Funding to help students from diverse backgrounds become journalists

15-16 Editors reveal what they want from graduates.

19 Earn while you learn as a journalism apprentice

23-29 Complete listing of NCTJ courses

31 Pay for your training with a bursary or grant

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Think again if you want money, job security and regular hours

Kim Fletcher is chairman for the NCTJ and a former editorial director of The Telegraph

diploma was a necessity or an advantage. Their view mirrored that of the editors to whom we talk (and who, along with lecturers sit on our board). Editors have a queue of people wanting to get into journalism and can afford to be picky – and tend to pick people with an NCTJ qualification. Trainee journalists who attend the courses we accredit and take the examinations we offer have the practical skills to work in all areas of the industry. Our diploma entails mandatory units in news reporting, multimedia portfolio, ethics, media law and Are you looking for a career that will make way – dealt a crippling blow to newspapers. regulation, public affairs and shorthand for you big money, with a clear career path and The old economic model is broken, because journalists, and at least two optional units, job security? Then you are in the wrong people spoiled by free stuff online are such as media law court reporting, video place. There are good reasons to be a reluctant to hand over money. The upside is journalism for online, sports journalism journalist, but not too many that will make that the digital world offers more and more or broadcast journalism. The prize your mother or father happy. Want to do opportunity to be published and – one way qualification, the “gold standard” diploma, something that will bring you the respect or another – will find some dosh. demands grades A – C in all modules and of your peers? Then keep out of journalism. In those circumstances, the bright thing to 100 words per minute in the shorthand Like the idea of regular hours? Think again. do is maximise your chances of employment. examination. Our survey found that 96 per If you are still reading, then you are not One way is to enrol on a training course cent of those questioned who had the gold the person who is deflected by a few home accredited by the educational charity standard were working. truths. Maybe you don’t mind the possibility the National Council for the Training of Journalists with our qualifications are on that you will become a penniless, social Journalists, whether at MA, undergraduate, local and national newspapers; they report pariah, disowned by your relatives and academic year, part-time or fast-track level. I regional and international news for the BBC, shunned by sensible friends who are heading guess I would say that, as chairman. ITV and Sky and commercial radio stations; for finance, insurance and teaching. But there is evidence: in our recent they staff big news agencies, magazines, Your reward must come elsewhere, from survey, when students who had studied on websites. In short, they find jobs in all working in a gossipy, mischievous trade our accredited courses were asked what they outlets. You don’t have to have a qualification where no day need be like the one before were doing now, some 82 per cent said they to work as a journalist, but when you are it; being paid (a little) to witness what were in work, compared with 70 per cent looking for that first job, people take you others would pay to see; rubbing shoulders of leavers from higher education courses seriously when you have. sometimes with the stars and sometimes across all subjects (let us gloss over, to my On the following pages you will find all with the fallen and – yes, journalism is point earlier, that the median salary was kinds of NCTJ courses and qualifications: important – finding out what is going on, £17,500, some £3,000 less than the level for at colleges, universities and independent bringing to account the rich and powerful, all graduates from higher education). providers, through apprenticeships and protecting democracy. And did I mention Most of those in work who responded to distance learning. Here are courses for how much fun it can be? the survey were in the creative media sectors school leavers, for undergraduates and The generation before you joined a media – 30 per cent in newspapers, 11 per cent graduates and for those looking to make a industry that made lots of money; you are in magazines, seven per cent in television, career change. Have a look, employ a little joining one that must work out all over again four per cent in radio and nine per cent journalistic scepticism, ask some tough how to make journalism pay. The internet in an online or digital sector. Of those in questions and work out your options. changed the way we live and – along the journalism jobs, 77 per cent said the NCTJ Good luck.

4 l 2015 Press Gazette www.pressgazette.co.uk JOURNALISM TRAINING 2015 You wouldn’t expect to lay a brick wall without training

Dominic Ponsford practice, and writing a news story follows is the editor of journalism news website the same principle. Press Gazette Knowledge of media law will teach you That’s why, as editor of Press Gazette, I how to avoid getting sued and how to always advise any aspiring journalist to get Anyone with an internet connection and a write stories which are damaging to the an NCTJ qualification. And that’s why we computer can start a blog these days and call reputations of businesses and individuals have worked exclusively with the NCTJ on themselves a journalist. secure in the knowledge that they are legally this sponsored guide. And if you have ambitions to be a reporter sound. Whether you get that training as an or writer you should by all means start your Curiously, an understanding of the nuts apprentice, undergraduate, masters own website, start tweeting and experiment and bolts of local and central government student or via a diploma is up to you: the with video and photography straight away. is not something which we are taught in qualification is the same. The best way to learn journalism is to do it. school – but it is essential for any journalist There are good journalism courses which But it remains true that if you have serious covering local or national news. aren’t accredited by the NCTJ, but also many ambitions to be a professional journalist you Shorthand, a seemingly arcane skill which bad ones. will greatly improve your chances of doing enables you to take notes at a speed of 100 Journalism is a challenging career so with the right vocational training. words per minute or more, is still a basic which will push your brain, your heart and News writing is not a skill which we are prerequisite for any general news reporter your creativity to the limits. And it is a job born with, it is a craft which must be learnt in the UK (largely because you can’t take a where even the lowliest local newspaper and practiced. tape recorder into a court). reporter is given huge power and You wouldn’t expect to be able to lay These are all the skills which you will learn responsibility and the chance to change the a7442_Press brick wall gazette without advert a 140mmx201mm_Layoutlot of training and 1 16/9/15on an 11:35NCTJ AM course. Page 1 world every day.

Take the next step to a career in journalism The Centre for Broadcasting & Journalism at Nottingham Trent University has been training aspiring journalists for over 20 years. Our journalism courses are among the most highly-regarded in the UK and are recognised by the NCTJ as the UK’s top performing journalism higher education courses.

Undergraduate courses • BA (Hons) Journalism • BA (Hons) Broadcast Journalism Postgraduate courses • MA / PG Dip Digital and Newspaper Journalism • MA / PG Dip Magazine Journalism • MA / PG Dip Broadcast Journalism • MA / PG Dip Documentary Journalism Find out about our courses and open days at www.ntu.ac.uk/nextstep

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There are also a range of Master’s courses on offer at BU in Journalism and Communication.

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Bullying news editor and NCTJ taught Times reporter his trade

Times chief investigative reporter Andrew Norfolk was named journalist of the year in 2014 for his four-year investigation into grooming and sex attacks by groups of men career in towns like Rotherham. His career in journalism began as a trainee on the Scarborough Evening News where he undertook his NCTJ training. Here he talks about how he learned his trade: “I draw, daily, on what I learnt back then. Legal issues, in both criminal and civil proceedings, take up far too much of my professional life and have featured heavily in the past four years. “And how could you begin to grasp the labyrinthine layers of power and accountability with a story like Rotherham’s, BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism where you’re trying to assess who knew what, and when, without first understanding the structure of local authorities, at Bournemouth University departmental responsibilities, multi-agency working, safeguarding boards, etc? “Slow and often indecipherable as it is, • Accreditation from professional bodies I’d be adrift without my shorthand. And as for interviews… well, this entire story was “I started, almost, to feel quite pleased little investigation. And they gave me three • Multi-disciplinary training in TV, radio, built on slowly winning damaged people’s with myself. At least maybe I would have days to work on it. Undreamt-of luxury. It confidence and trust to the point where they done, had I not been landed with a bullying was dodgy dealing in a further education newspaper, magazine, and online journalism became willing to sit down and talk to you. bastard of a news editor who wouldn’t leave college. To tell the darkest of stories. me alone. “The principal, to boost a funding stream • Complete a year’s placement and make “Those were just about the most “He was always on my back, pushing me that was based on the number of students invaluable industry contacts important, sensitive, challenging interviews to do more, telling me to go out there and you had and the number of courses you I’ve ever done. If there was one quality more start to find my own bloody stories instead taught, had invented an entirely bogus • Vocational and innovative programme important than any that was required for this of being handed them on a plate. It took a course for adults with learning difficulties. story, I think it was probably empathy. while, but eventually I realised he was right. “The paperwork looked good but the designed to meet both employer and “Overall then, I owe a massive debt of “He looked at me and saw a soft, privileged students supposedly enrolled on the course student’s needs resulting in consistently high thanks to the NCTJ. prima donna. He saw a kid who’d had it easy were actually babies and young toddlers - “But I also learned so much in my all his life, and who needed to get his hands the offspring of the teaching staff - whose graduate employment rates of over 90% formative years on what was then the not just dirty but filthy. And who was never time at the college was spent in its creche. evening newspaper with the country’s going to make a decent journalist until he “That was a story, albeit a little story, that smallest circulation. did. I sulked; he bullied. And in the end I did someone in a position of local power didn’t “It sometimes felt as though if you farted in what I was told. want us to tell.” Scarborough we’d stick it in the newspaper. “He’s now one of my best friends. Asked what advice he would give to an To fill the pages for each edition was a daily “Of all the stories in my career, nothing but aspiring journalist, he says: “If you feel it’s in challenge. nothing has matched the buzz I got on the your blood and you’ve got the curiosity and There are also a range of Master’s courses on offer at BU in “There was, of course, the daily routine day the exclusive, front-page Scarborough sense of wanting to tell stories that people of police calls, magistrates court, council Evening News splash was a story whose don’t want you to tell I’d say go for it. Journalism and Communication. meetings, vox pops, press releases. Pretty seed was a chat I’d had in a pub. “And if you start on a regional newspaper soon I thought I was getting quite good at all “I was told something that sounded and get your initial training with the NCTJ I that. I also fancied myself as a bit of a writer. outrageous, did a bit of digging and it turned think you will be getting a great grounding Find out more www.bournemouth.ac.uk/media Started doing features, theatre reviews out to be true. And it was my story, my first for the future.” www.pressgazette.co.uk Press Gazette 2015 l 7 JOURNALISM TRAINING 2015 In association with NCTJ Diploma, degree or MA: Which course is for you?

The 40 centres offering NCTJ-accredited students end up wishing they’d worked courses have all signed up to the harder earlier on their shorthand. principles and practice contained in the For A level students set on a career industry standard, writes NCTJ head of in journalism but also keen to have the accreditation John Cary. full university experience, there are And they are held to account on how they more than two dozen NCTJ-accredited are delivering on those promises by working undergraduate courses lasting three or editors taking part in the programme of four years. Students must balance the accreditation panel visits. needs of their degree study alongside the But across more than 80 courses based demands of the diploma. in all the nations and regions of the United There will be fewer hours each week Kingdom, there is a huge amount of variety in the classroom or lecture theatre than Where? in how they teach the skills needed to for the shorter courses, but there’s time Courses are run at universities, further secure the NCTJ Diploma in Journalism. to take a more academic approach to education colleges and independent The shortest NCTJ courses last around areas such as the history and ethics providers. Each type of centre will offer four months. The longest takes four years. of journalism. a different experience, and price tags will A fast-track course offers the prospect Many universities have invested in vary hugely too. The NCTJ diploma is a of passing the diploma in a matter of newsroom facilities that leave visiting truly national qualification, so there will months. Expect a full-on experience that working editors feeling jealous. Students be a course not far from home for the vast will leave little time for anything except will often hone their practical skills across majority of people. That includes locations studying to pass the exams and getting TV, radio, print and online during a series of from Cornwall to Kirkcaldy, Cardiff, valuable experience of newsroom life and news day exercises run to tight deadlines by Coleraine and Kent. getting your stories published for real on a experienced hacks. regular placement. Potential journalists with a first degree The vast majority of courses start Typically, fast-tracks will give you 9-5 under their belt can choose to stay in immediately after the summer holiday, although there are a few fast-tracks which classroom work for at least four days each higher education for a postgraduate will begin in January and February and week. And a large part of those hours will course. All the elements of the diploma finish before the summer. be spent in the struggle to get from 0 to are still included, but masters courses also 100 words per minute (wpm) in shorthand. add in some broader and deeper academic Why? Expect eight hours or more of shorthand modules into their journalism mix. Finally, ask yourself why you are looking lessons per week, backed up by a chunk of As with undergraduate study, several to study journalism? Because that’s the daily practice at home. accredited courses focus on specialist question you will face when you apply for Postgraduate students looking for a quick journalism areas such as sports, magazine, an accredited course. Recruiters will be route to gaining vocational skills fill most of newspapers or fashion. Masters students looking for candidates who not only say the places on fast-track courses. There are usually find that their holidays are needed they want to be a journalist, but can point to evidence that they’re already pursuing exceptions, but tutors report that younger to fit in the work placements they need to that dream, through published writing, post-A level students tend to find the complete the diploma. work experience, student media or intensity of the experience overwhelming. Part-time courses offer an option volunteering. Centres running fast-tracks will often run for people who can’t afford to give two courses a year, one starting after the up the day job while they pursue Above all, do your research and be well summer holidays and a second early in the their ambitions of a career in journalism. prepared when you visit a centre. That is New Year. Typically, students attend classes your chance to turn the questions back to The pace is less frenetic on the many one evening a week and all day on Saturdays. a course leader and ask them why their academic year diploma courses, but the It’s a substantial commitment, and students course is the right one for you to choose. focus is still wholly on gaining the diploma must be singled-minded enough to fit their qualification. These courses, running journalism studies into September-July, are often the preferred option already busy lives. for candidates who have recently left school, An increasing number of although they also attract older students. specialist part-time courses There is a bit more time to scale the are being launched, 100wpm shorthand summit. But don’t and full-time courses be fooled into taking it easy in those first will sometimes accept few weeks. Many former academic year part-time students.

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www.pressgazette.co.uk Press Gazette 2015 l 11 JOURNALISM TRAINING 2015 In association with NCTJ Overcoming adversity to make it as a journalist

The British journalism industry is not as diverse as the society it reports on. That’s why the industry set up the Journalism Diversity Fund ten years ago. It provides training and subsistence grants to people from diverse social and ethnic backgrounds and has helped nearly 200 aspiring journalists undertake NCTJ training. Four grant recipients reveal how, with a intense, partly because I was also doing Sophie Mei Lan little help, they overcame adversity to make night shifts at Mail Online while I studied. 27, from Sheffield, South Yorkshire it as journalists. I’m currently the assistant readers’ editor As well as being ill during my studies at Link: www.journalismdiversityfund.com at the Daily Mail and am about to start the university I also fell pregnant with my graduate trainee scheme here. I love my job. first child but I was determined to train to The advice I would give to aspiring become a journalist. I studied for a PgDip journalists is to use every spare moment in journalism at University of Salford which you have to gain experience; your school had just moved to Media City UK. and university holidays are more valuable The most useful skills I learnt were media than you realise. law and shorthand (which was extremely hard to get my head round!) but I find these skills are very useful today. Having the support of the JDF also made me realise how lucky I am to be ‘diverse’. Ben Bostock Whilst completing my PgDip I got a job as 29, from Carmarthen, West Wales a trainee digital reporter for Johnston Press As a disabled person with Cerebral Palsy newspapers in West Yorkshire and did bits of working as a sales assistant, I was luckily freelance work for the Mirror Online. eligible for the bursary. This help from the I had applied to several broadcast NCTJ was the deciding factor in being able traineeships in the past but was never to take my place on the course. successful or I couldn’t make it down to Training at Cardiff University was Chris Andrews London. And then I received an email from absolutely first class. I think the most 26, from Sheffield, South Yorkshire the JDF about the BBC’s Journalism Trainee valuable skill I honed on the course was After studying politics at Queen’s University Scheme where I could be based in Salford. curiosity and the ability to question. I secured a place on the MA journalism I got my dream job on a current affairs I now work in marketing for the water course at Ulster University. placement across the BBC for a year. I industry. I can utilise all the training I gained I was concerned after doing so that with am currently still on the scheme but have at Cardiff and the visual communications fees and living costs I would have to give been off on maternity with my second child skills developed as an undergraduate. it up before I even started. I come from who has been critically ill. I have however There’s nothing like training as a one of the most socially deprived areas in continued making films in my spare time journalist. It’s tough, stressful (especially Northern Ireland and from a community for BBC Raw (Salford Creative Hub), with five minutes to deadline and even that is facing a crisis in terms of educational which I love being part of as it allows me fewer words on the page) but incredibly underachievement. to express my creativity and the group rewarding. The knowledge, information After beginning my career at UTV in is very inclusive. It is now my dream to you uncover and the news you break will television reporting and radio newsreading, be a presenter on Newsround, which give you a feeling like no other. Plus, I have been at BBC Northern Ireland for incorporates my love of current affairs and transferable skills mean you’ll be well just over two years. I continue to read news my knowledge of children prepared, wherever your career takes you. bulletins and report, as well as produce the My tips to aspiring journalists are to get flagship radio current affairs programmes. an NCTJ diploma under your belt as soon Rehema Figueiredo I would advise aspiring journalists not as possible but most of all keep coming up 23, from south London to grow impatient. It is a challenging time, with new, challenging and exciting ideas. I went to an inner city comprehensive and but the opportunities are out there. The Don’t wait to get a job, being a journalist then read English at Leeds. I found the best and most determined will always rise is part of your life and there are so many Press Association NCTJ course incredibly to the top. mediums now to self-publish.

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If so, look no further than Postgraduate Journalism at Leeds Trinity University - the perfect platform to kick-start your career in journalism. We are one of the UK’s leading centres for journalism and training and offer industry-accredited postgraduate courses in print and broadcast journalism. Both of our postgraduate courses provide the highest standard of journalism training to ensure trainees can walk away from the course with a professional role in the industry. Because both courses provide first-class industry links, many trainees find full-time work months before they finish the course - a testament to the standard of teaching and learning. Print Journalism The stats speak for themselves. In 2014, Print Journalism is accredited by the ever have imagined in such a short space for the second year running, Postgraduate National Council for the Training of of time. It is hard work, really hard work, Journalism at Leeds Trinity University Journalists (NCTJ) and offers the but I enjoyed every minute of it. The links achieved a 100% graduate employment opportunity to take the NCTJ diploma you will make will be key to your career.” success rate. Our alumni are strongly examinations. The course is a full-time Emma Kirwan, 2015 broadcast represented in the BBC, commercial intensive programme designed to provide journalism trainee said: “Despite only radio and television, and newspaper and the practical skills required for print being on the course for a few months, I magazine newsrooms across Yorkshire and and online journalism, including finding already have NCTJ qualifications and I feel the rest of the country. news stories, writing to length, writing to confident in interviewing, reporting and deadline, page design and video journalism. researching; all necessary journalist skills. Broadcast Journalism Trainees are also given a comprehensive The course has helped me figure at which We were the first UK institution to introduce understanding of professional journalism area of journalism I am most interested in. a postgraduate broadcast journalism practice. Trainees become interns for the It is a fast paced and proactive course and degree (radio and television.) The degree Yorkshire Evening Post as part of a student I would recommend it to anyone.” is accredited by the Broadcast Journalism newsroom project. Working for real news Lisa Bradley, print journalism course Training Council. Trainees will develop editors, trainees can see their byline in leader, said: “We firmly believe our all the practical skills which the industry print from the word go. journalism courses are second to none due requires, such as sound recording, editing, Both courses allow trainees to report on to our intensive real working newsroom, camera work and script writing. Thorough Leeds Trinity University’s well-renowned six weeks of industry placements and training in the techniques of broadcast annual Journalism Week which gives internships with regional newspapers that news is provided. students a perfect opportunity to showcase come with the course. 100 per cent of Trainees also spend one month on their work to a wide audience. our cohort over the past three years were air, during which they produce radio in journalism jobs before the end of the bulletins in real time for Bradford 100 per cent in journalism jobs programme.” Community Broadcasting. Each trainee Daniel Lynch, 2013 broadcast journalism Contact: 0113 283 7150 gains experience in the roles of editor, postgraduate said: “The course at Leeds or [email protected] newsreader and reporter. Trinity improved me more than I could www.leedstrinity.ac.uk www.pressgazette.co.uk Press Gazette 2015 l 13 SPONSORED FEATURE In association with NCTJ At Bournemouth University, it’s all about the students Stephen Cross takes up the story.

Despite being determined not to undertake a degree, I eventually chose Bournemouth Uni due to the practical nature of the NCTJ-accredited BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism course which suited my style of learning and application to the industry of broadcast journalism. It was an excellent experience learning from people who were part of the industry, very hands on and packed full of practical applications. Although I had a wealth of practical experience, the academic staff managed to help me push my personal boundaries and experience new styles of journalism and different workplaces, which has helped me to develop and learn new skills. Bournemouth holds many memories and Why BU? is a fantastic place to study, with friendly people and a vibrant atmosphere. The BA (Hons) Multimedia I was part of the Nerve Radio society, Journalism course at BU was the and have since been back after my degree first journalism course in the UK to continue to help out where I can. to be accredited by the three main Every Freshers’ Week, I always tune in to professional bodies: reminisce over excellent memories. • The Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC) For something completely different • National Council for the Training get your smartphone out and use the QR of Journalists (NCTJ) code here to take a look • Periodicals Training Council (PTC) at Neil Meldrum’s story online as he tells you about being a graduate of the BA(Hons) Multimedia Where will it lead? Journalism course. Neil is now assistant editor at the Bournemouth Echo and This journalism course produces explains what makes him #buproud imaginative graduates able to There’s so much more to tell you about produce news and features for TV, radio, newspapers, magazines and BU students in the studying Journalism at BU, so why not go spotlight online and look at www.bournemouth. online publication. ac.uk/media including our dedicated Students have won numerous awards student blog where you can keep up to date Our graduates are now in positions including the New Magazine Concept with current journalism students and find such as newsreader at Capital at the Periodicals Training Council’s out about their experiences Radio, producer for BBC Sport, Magazine Academy Awards, Follow us on social media: correspondent for Sky News, Reuters chat to current students and ask us correspondent and news editor the Sports Journalism Award at the any questions you have about studying of Heat magazine. Our students National Student Journalism Awards Multimedia Journalism here at BU via are working as video journalists Twitter #BAMMJ and you can also follow on Panorama, as reporters for Sky and the Royal Television Society’s us on Facebook (JoinBournemouthUni) and as financial journalists for Young Journalist of the Year award and on Twitter (@BournemouthUni). Bloomberg.

14 l 2015 Press Gazette www.pressgazette.co.uk JOURNALISM TRAINING 2015 What editors want Four leading editors share their tips on how to stand out when it comes to CVs, covering letters and interview

on it. Second make sure you know what’s to seek out the truth and communicate it to going on in the world. Many candidates let a wider audience a successful and fulfilling themselves down because they’re not up career in journalism is less likely. to speed with current events. So whether So, when it comes to choosing one CV it’s for a placement or a job you need to over another finding ways of convincing work hard at all of these things - and then the reader that you have these in-built hopefully it won’t be your CV that ends up qualities is essential. on the reject pile. Academic qualifications are important, particularly relevant ones which have involved study in some aspect of journalism at respected institutions or subjects that might be of specific use in the future, like fluency in foreign languages, expertise in data, politics or economics. But life experiences which demonstrate your commitment to storytelling or general grit, determination and resilience (all qualities you’ll require) are the things that’ll make Sky News digital editor and work you stand out from the crowd. placement manager Neil Dunwoodie Don’t say you’re ‘passionate’ about journalism, or it’s your ‘biggest dream’, We get hundreds of CVs at Sky News every you’ll sound like one of hundreds of year from aspiring journalists - and that’s wannabe X-Factor stars. Provide evidence, just for work placements. in your CV, covering letter and interview...... Competition is fierce so you need to show Head of training at the BBC academy if you’ve broken through the massed ranks you have the range of skills employers are Mark Wray of the other applicants. looking for. • How are you passionate? Firstly I want to see some evidence of How to become a journalist is one of those • What have you done to fulfil your a commitment to journalism - whether it’s $64,000 questions. dream? writing for the college newspaper or an In fact, it’ll be considerably less in • What more do you need to do...self editorial work placement. reality given the average starting salary awareness and confident humility Doing a journalism degree isn’t enough. of a new entrant. If you’re looking to get being further qualities that will go In my view a good candidate should have rich quick then look away now...though our down well. at least three solid pieces of journalistic profession has many other rewards. Mix in plenty of the latest currency of experience on their CV. Editors and other recruiters have diverse modern, digital journalism. On top of that I expect would-be views about what makes a good journalist, Having proficient and proactive social journalists to have lots of ideas about some of those tailored to what sort of media skills (again supported by evidence); stories and their visual treatment, be fully publication or platform they run. But most, familiarity with data and its manipulation; conversant with story-telling for digital if not all, would say they’re looking for technical savviness, particularly when it audiences and ideally be able to film and edit people with curiosity hard-wired into their comes to mobile journalism and use of their own video content. Some journalists DNA coupled with a passion for finding, smartphones as a news-gathering tool; and have also learned how to code so they can telling and sharing stories. general awareness of the media landscape create their own interactive graphics. Two Important journalistic tools like law, (particularly that of your would-be other pieces of advice.: First, make sure public affairs, ethics and shorthand can employer and their competitors). you’re fully conversant with the output be learned...and, in my opinion they’re Show an editor that you have all this of the organisation you want to work for learned best on accredited courses. and you will stand the best possible chance - you’re bound to be asked for your views But without those fundamental instincts of success.

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No one said life was going to be fair which is just as well because the competition these days is intense. If a news editor or two is prepared to put their name to a short statement backing your application that carries a lot of weight. From time to time I get applications from well qualified young candidates who have got an impressive number of placements on national newspapers but nothing on local or regional media. That always sets off alarm bells and begs the question why not? Does the candidate think they are too good for a local (in which case they are mistaken) or are they merely well Managing editor of Mirror Group connected and haven’t bothered to get a Newspapers Aidan McGurran placement on a local - where ironically they are likely to be given far more hands on Work experience, work experience....you experience. get the idea. A decent body of relevant One of the distinguishing features about placements is crucial. Without these the Mirror scheme, and part of the reason “...looking for real evidence you can be the brightest most academic I believe it is the best, is you spend your of the candidate’s passion and candidate in the world but you won’t clear first year on a series of placements with hunger for the job. the first hurdle. some of our Trinity regional titles. This ” Apologies to your parents who have is a hugely important part of the training Editors are also looking for real evidence probably spent a fortune on your education process so candidates who are sniffy about of the candidate’s passion and hunger but I am not overly concerned where you regional news are not for us. for the job. What have they done to went to university or what you studied. To Covering letters are difficult and there demonstrate this is the job for them? What make it through our selection process you is no magic formula but I want to see a have they had published - in newspapers, will be fiercely intelligent and resourceful. passion for journalism and a sense that magazines, online? What work experience That is a given. you really, really want a place on the Mirror have they had? Don’t waste your time if you vaguely like scheme. I realise you have to apply for Remember, there will be lots of the idea of journalism - in order to make other schemes but I want people that are applicants chasing every job so what have it to the interview stage of our selection going to fit into the Mirror team and really you done to get to the front of the queue? process your passion for a career in the want to be here. It was one of the proudest When you go for work experience, don’t media will have to shine through. days of my life when I arrived at the Mirror go empty-handed and wait to be given And to go back to my starting point and I want to get that sense from all our something to do. Go in with suggestions nothing illustrates this better than work shortlisted applicants. for stories - have something to contribute. experience. But don’t worry if you haven’t When applying for jobs, do your had a placement on a national newspaper, homework first: check the name of the I don’t mind. Peter Barron, Northern Echo editor editor and demonstrate some knowledge I will be more impressed with a of the title. Keep the covering letter to a collection of placements on local/regional In my experience, editors in the regional single page but include enough to grab papers/websites/radio or TV stations. I will press are still looking for the NCTJ the editor’s attention. Make sure someone be particularly impressed if you have been pre-entry qualification as a minimum proof-reads your letter and CV for spelling asked back by a paper on several occasions requirement, irrespective of whether the and grammatical mistakes. or during your time at university/sixth form candidate has completed a degree. I do I recently received an application from you have regularly supplied them with not insist on a degree but I would want to a graduate who began by saying how match reports, drama reviews, tip-offs for know that the basic NCTJ training has been keen they were to work for “the Evening stories etc. completed. Gazette”. I had to point out that I am the What I want to see is a real obsession Successful recruits will have a broad editor of The Northern Echo. with news, I want candidates to show me range of skills covering the print and For interviews, again go in with plenty they love finding stories and writing them digital demands of the modern newsroom, of knowledge. Find out what the title has and they have already shown to some including video, audio, photography, and been doing - what have been its successful extent they can recognise a good story and a demonstrable track record with social campaigns and best exclusives? Say what develop contacts. media. you like about the paper and don’t be However, it is a far more competitive At the heart of it all remains the ability to afraid to suggest areas of improvement. market place than when I took my first write accurately, quickly and with balance. Have a story or campaign suggestion up tentative steps into a career in journalism The need to get it right first time has never your sleeve as a way of concluding the in the far off days of pre-history. been more important. interview. That is bound to impress.

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HIT THE HEADLINES News UK is home to three of the best-known newspaper titles in the world and our talented journalists are constantly setting the news agenda. The News Academy is an exciting initiative from News UK, the publishers of top selling newspapers The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun. The Times Established more than 200 The News Academy offers incredible opportunities for young students years ago, The Times is one of the world’s most considering a career in journalism. respected newspaper titles thanks to the quality and depth of its journalism. It continues to break the biggest and most talked about stories such How can YOU benefit? as the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons against its own people, and is home to opinion- 1. An innovative programme of visits compile their own newspaper, search out forming columnists, including Caitlin Moran and by our world-class journalists to schools and write stories and see it printed at the Matthew Parris. and colleges across the country. Each world’s largest print site in Broxbourne. The Sun Read by around 12 million people visit includes an opportunity for young a week, The Sun is the UK’s most successful and people to discuss topical issues, the role 4. A tangible opportunity for young biggest-selling newspaper. It’s all thanks to the of the media and receive practical career writers – a fortnightly competition to winning mix of celebrity scoops, unbeatable guidance. have their article published on our sports coverage and legendary contributors together with a commitment to reporting the comprehensive website (www.news.co.uk/ truth and championing the things that matter 2. Regular half-day conferences delivered academy), packed with information about to its readers. across the UK and Ireland. Each how to become a success in the industry conference hosts sessions featuring our and insights from experts. The Sunday Times The UK’s number best writers and a platform to debate the one Sunday paper has won countless awards for its outstanding investigative journalism, role of professional journalism. For more information and to keep up with frontline reporting and powerful campaigns, the latest opportunities: from exposing gangster David Hunt, which 3. A bespoke summer school at the @the_newsacademy led to a criminal trial, to creating a campaign company’s new HQ offering a week of TheNewsAcademy demanding equal care for NHS patients every training for the most promising and Email: [email protected] day of the week. talented young people. The students Website: academy.news.co.uk

20 l 2015 Press Gazette www.pressgazette.co.uk SPONSORED FEATURE

Meet the trainees Four aspiring journalists talk about their experience of being involved in the News Academy

...I’d like to change the world‘‘ and I think I could do that through journalism or broadcasting ’’

Robert Bruce, from Dagenham in Essex is studying broadcast journalism at Leeds University. “I was one of the finalists for Column Idol in the Summer of 2014. This was the competition to write a column for The Sun newspaper and see your work in print. “The News Academy Summer School was one of the best things I have ever done. It was life-changing. We got to produce a 20-page newspaper. I was culture and entertainment editor and had a double-page spread to fill. “Getting to meet all the News UK journalists was really amazing. When I graduate I’d like to change the world and I think I could do that through journalism or broadcasting.”

Toby Craven, was on the latest News Academy summer school in August 2015. “Apart from learning from top journalists, we spent the week sourcing stories for our own paper, The Edge. “Our aim was to prove to young people that tabloids are still a great source of news. “I’ve been interested in journalism ever since I could read a newspaper, and the Ruby Osman, from Cambridge, is Shingi Mariarike, from East Ham Summer School has given me a precious currently at sixth-form college. is studying English Literature at Warwick glimpse of three world-class titles – The “I’ve always been interested in writing. University and attended the 2014 News Times, The Sunday Times, and The Sun In the last couple of years I have been Academy summer school. – do it. thinking I would like to go into journalism “It was a life-changing experience because “The News UK brand has also provided so the News Academy was a great after it I was 100 per cent sure I wanted to unprecedented access to a number of opportunity. be a journalist. I went away feeling that I events, such as being behind the scenes “I really enjoyed being in the newsroom can definitely do this. at the Emirates, and interviews with Andy and working to deadlines. “When I first told my mum I wanted to Burnham and Tess Daly “The best moment was about 3am in be a journalist she warned me that it was “The News Academy Summer School the morning on the last day when we so competitive. is an unparalleled chance to understand finally sent our paper off the printers and “This scheme has really helped me get how a paper is made, from some of the managed to do it. It was a great feeling.” a foot in the door. I’m doing an internship best in the business. I’d recommend any this summer with The Sunday Times.” aspiring journalist to apply.”

www.pressgazette.co.uk Press Gazette 2015 l 21 SPONSORED FEATURE In association with NCTJ The skills you will need for the information age Professor Richard Sambrook, Cardiff University

Cardiff’s guest speakers ensure each course is relevant Case studies and direct access to the rapidly changing requirements of employers. to media leaders helps provide insight into what’s driving the Why train to be a journalist? It’s a thorough grounding in media law, public media revolution. reasonable question as we read about the administration, media ethics, interviewing many apparent crises in the media. But and reporting skills, tight writing and of Journalism, Media and Cultural studies the answer is simple. We are living in editing. we have launched new courses with other the information age – and journalists are If traditional newsroom jobs are departments; an MBA in Media Management information professionals whose skills disappearing there is no question that new with Cardiff Business School or an MSc in are increasingly needed. As technology roles are developing fast. The sub-editors Computational Journalism with the School transforms the media the journalism skills of the past are the social media community of Computer Science and Informatics. And of gathering, verifying, assessing and managers of the future; the editors’ back we have developed specialist modules in analysing information, skills in fashioning a bench may be gone but the UGC desk is Business, Politics, Sport, Data, Lifestyle and compelling story and in engaging the public here for the foreseeable future. And where Consumer journalism to ensure students are in higher demand than ever. once there were just a few large media leave with a level of expertise in at least Of course those skills, and the tools a organisations now, in some sense, every one key area. journalist uses, are changing rapidly with company is a media company looking at Our experience shows this makes a new technology. Today, knowing to ask how to engage the public with information difference to employability – and supports “Who, What, Where, When and Why” is and stories. our record of 90% of post graduates getting not enough. Today’s journalists need to None of this is easy. It takes skill, a job within a year of leaving. understand the dynamics of social media, judgement, critical awareness, and an ever Today’s journalism graduates also have how to use and visualise data, how to tell wider range of technical abilities. Which is to understand how and why news and video stories at 20 minutes for documentary, why good training is essential. media are changing. Case studies and 2 minutes for a news programme or 20 Today’s journalism courses have to direct access to media leaders provides seconds for Instagram. develop as swiftly as the industry they insight into what’s driving the revolution They need to understand the new serve. the media is currently experiencing. relationship with readers and audiences. The best place digital and social media Which provides another compelling Journalism is no longer about telling the at the heart of what they do, embrace reason to consider journalism as a career. public what you think they need to know. data journalism, multi-platform publishing At a time of great change, there is great It’s now a collaborative exercise, working and are closely tied into industry with opportunity. We can’t say what roles or with the public to explore the world and guest speakers, work placements and careers will be like in ten years time. engaging them in a more personal one-to- collaborations to ensure they are relevant But for those with commitment and self- one relationship than the sometimes lofty to the rapidly changing requirements of motivation, undaunted by competition or tones of the past. employers. the need for hard work, and crucially with Underpinning all this, the core skills They also innovate across other a good foundation of training, journalism remain essential. Students need a disciplines. That’s why at Cardiff’s School skills can take them a long way.

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The National Council for the Training Full list of NCTJ-accredited of Journalists (NCTJ) accredits courses journalism courses in newspaper, magazine and broadcast for 2015/2016 journalism delivered at universities, colleges BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY Page 6, 14 and independent providers around the UK Media School, Weymouth House, Fern Barrow, Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB Contact: Karen Fowler-Watt, 01202 965129 In order to achieve NCTJ accreditation Press Association Training - Newcastle Email: [email protected] for its course, each centre has to agree Sheffield College Website: www.bournemouth.ac.uk to adhere to a strict set of guidelines, to • BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism teach the whole of the NCTJ’s syllabus PART-TIME and to undergo regular inspection visits Brighton Journalist Works BRIGHTON JOURNALIST WORKS to maintain high standards. City of Liverpool College The Argus, Crowhurst Road, Hollingbury, News Associates – London, Manchester Brighton BN1 8AR All centres listed adhere to these Press Association – London Contact: Paula O’Shea, 01273 540350 guidelines, and have gained NCTJ Email: [email protected] accreditation for the courses listed. UNDERGRADUATE Website: www.journalistworks.co.uk Whilst this list is regularly updated, the Bournemouth University • Fast-track Diploma in Journalism most up-to-date information can always Brunel University • Part-time Diploma in Journalism (daytime) be found at: www.nctj.com De Montfort University • Part-time Diploma (evening/weekend) Falmouth University AT A GLANCE Glasgow Caledonian University BRUNEL UNIVERSITY If you know what type of course you Glynd University Brunel University West London, want to study, the following will help Leeds Trinity University School of Arts, Uxbridge UB8 3PH you decide which centre to attend: Nottingham Trent University Contact: Sarah Niblock, 01895 267273 Staffordshire University Email: [email protected] ACADEMIC YEAR (SEPTEMBER – JULY) Teesside University Website: www.brunel.ac.uk City of Liverpool College University of Brighton • BA (Hons) Journalism City of Wolverhampton College University of Essex • MA in Journalism Cornwall College University of Central Lancashire Darlington College University of Kent CARDIFF UNIVERSITY Page 7, 22 Harlow College University of Lincoln Centre for Journalism Studies, The Bute Highbury College (in partnership with The News) University of Portsmouth Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Lambeth College University of Sheffield Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NB North West Regional College University of Sunderland Contact: Michael Hill, 029 2087 4084 Email: [email protected] DAY RELEASE POSTGRADUATE Website: www.cardiff.ac.uk Fife College Brunel University • MA/PgDip in News Journalism Glasgow Clyde College Cardiff University De Montfort University CITY OF LIVERPOOL COLLEGE HND Glasgow Caledonian University Journalism Unit, The Arts Centre, Fife College Kingston University 9 Myrtle Street, Liverpool L7 7JA Glasgow Clyde College Leeds Trinity University Contact: Greg Nixon, 0151 252 4366 Nottingham Trent University Email: [email protected] FAST-TRACK (16 to 22 weeks) St Mary’s University, Twickenham Website: www.liv-coll.ac.uk Brighton Journalist Works Staffordshire University • Fast-track Diploma in Journalism City of Liverpool College Teesside University • Academic year Diploma in Journalism Cornwall College Camborne Ulster University • Part-time Diploma in Journalism Harlow College University of Central Lancashire Highbury College University of Kent CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COLLEGE Lambeth College University of Salford Paget Road, Wolverhampton WV6 0DU City of Liverpool College University of Sheffield Contact: Danielle Wozencroft, 01902 317564 News Associates - London University of Sunderland Email: [email protected] News Associates - Manchester University of Sussex Website: www.wolvcoll.ac.uk Press Association Training - London University of Ulster • Academic year Diploma in Journalism

www.pressgazette.co.uk Press Gazette 2015 l 23 Great careers begin at Falmouth

“Studying journalism at Falmouth provided me with many of the skills I need to do my job at Sky News. It’s a great town and a great place to study.”

Lorna Dunkley Anchorwoman

Graduate destinations include Radio 1, GamesTM, Sky Sports, BBC News, New Statesman, Wavelength, Hindustan Times and Reuters.

AVAILABLE COURSES BA(Hons) Journalism BA(Hons) Sports Journalism BA(Hons) Journalism and Creative Writing BA(Hons) Journalism and Communications BA(Hons) English and Journalism

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CORNWALL COLLEGE CAMBORNE • Day release – Practical Journalism LAMBETH COLLEGE Page 19 Great careers Opie Building, Trevenson Rd, Pool, Clapham Centre, 45 Clapham Common Redruth, Cornwall TR15 3RD GLYNDWR UNIVERSITY South Side, London, SW4 9BL Contact: Lindsey Kennedy, 01209 611611 Plas Coch Campus, Mold Road, Contact: Roz McKenzie, 020 7501 5496 Email: [email protected] Wrexham, Wales LL11 2AW Email: [email protected] Website: www.cornwall.ac.uk Contact: Janet Jones, 01978 293572 Website: www.lambethcollege.ac.uk • Academic year Diploma in Journalism Email: [email protected] • Fast-track Newspaper Journalism begin at • Fast-track Diploma in Journalism Website: www.glyndwr.ac.uk • Fast-track Magazine Journalism • Certificate of Higher Education in Journalism • Diploma in Multimedia Journalism (one year) DARLINGTON COLLEGE Central Park, Haughton Road, HARLOW COLLEGE LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY Page 2, 13 Darlington, County Durham DL1 1DR Velizy Avenue, Harlow, Essex CM20 3LH Centre for Journalism, Brownberrie Lane, Contact: Sue Calvert, 01325 503050 Contact: Simon Fitzjohn, 01279 868100 Horsforth, Leeds LS18 5HD Falmouth Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Contact: Catherine O’Connor, 0113 283 7180 Website: www.darlington.ac.uk Website: www.harlow-college.ac.uk Email: [email protected] • Academic year Diploma in Journalism • Fast-track Diploma in Journalism Website: www.leedstrinity.ac.uk • Fast-track Diploma in Magazine Journalism • MA/PgDip Print and Digital Journalism DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY • Academic year Diploma in Journalism • BA (Hons) Journalism The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH “Studying journalism at Falmouth Contact: Ali Haynes, 0116 255 1551 HIGHBURY COLLEGE NEWS ASSOCIATES - LONDON provided me with many of the skills I Email: [email protected] Department of Media Creative and 247 The Broadway, Wimbledon, Contact: (BA) John Dilley, 0116 2078810 Visual Arts, Dovercourt Road, Cosham, London SW19 1SD need to do my job at Sky News. It’s a Email: [email protected] Portsmouth PO6 2SA Contact: James Toney, 0870 445 0155 great town and a great place to study.” Website: www.dmu.ac.uk Contact: Dave King Email: [email protected] • BA (Hons) Journalism Email: [email protected] Website: www.newsassociates.co.uk Lorna Dunkley • MA Journalism Website: www.highbury.ac.uk • Fast-track Diploma in Multimedia Journalism Anchorwoman • Fast-track Newspaper Journalism • Part-time Diploma Multimedia Journalism FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY Page 24 • Diploma in Journalism (in partnership with • Multimedia Sports Journalism Penryn Campus, Treliever Road, The News) Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9FE NEWS ASSOCIATES - MANCHESTER Contact: Rob Brown, 01326 259261 KINGSTON UNIVERSITY 111 Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 2HY Email: [email protected] Faculty of Arts & Social Science, Penrhyn Rd, Contact: Andrew Greaves, 0870 445 0155 Website: www.falmouth.ac.uk Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE Email: [email protected] • BA (Hons) Journalism Contact: James Morrison, 0208 417 9000 Website: www.newsassociates.co.uk • BA (Hons) Sports Journalism Email: [email protected] • Fast-track Diploma in Multimedia Journalism Website: www.kingston.ac.uk • Part-time Diploma Multimedia Journalism FIFE COLLEGE • MA/PgDip Journalism • Multimedia Sports Journalism St Brycedale Avenue, Kirkcaldy, Fife KY1 1EX Graduate destinations include Contact: Patrick Joyce, 01592 223136 Radio 1, GamesTM, Sky Sports, BBC News, Email: [email protected] New Statesman, Wavelength, Hindustan Website: www.fife.ac.uk • HND Practical Journalism Times and Reuters. • Day release Journalism

AVAILABLE COURSES GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY Caledonian Business School, City Campus, BA(Hons) Journalism Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA BA(Hons) Sports Journalism Contact: Julian Calvert, 0141 331 3844 BA(Hons) Journalism and Creative Writing Email: [email protected] : BA(Hons) Journalism and Communications Website: www.gcu.ac.uk BA(Hons) English and Journalism • BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism • MA Multimedia Journalism For the full story visit GLASGOW CLYDE COLLEGE Page 25 falmouth.ac.uk/swj 690 Mosspark Drive, Glasgow G52 3AY Contact: Felicity Teasdale, 0141 272 3186 Email: [email protected] Website: www.glasgowclyde.ac.uk • HND Practical Journalism

www.pressgazette.co.uk Press Gazette 2015 l 25 SPONSORED FEATURE In association with NCTJ Journalism at UCLan If you want to watch events unfold, history happen and then report it, film it, tweet it, blog it and broadcast it, UCLan’s journalism courses are for you. This is the world of news on the move and our programmes offer all the multimedia skills you need to tell the story as a professional journalist.

At UCLan, you will get the opportunity to meet some of the major players in the creative industries: editors, programme commissioners, producers, directors and digital entrepreneurs. We believe in actively working with our alumni and industry UCLan’s BA (Hons) Journalism degree who now work for prestigious organisations contacts to develop projects involving our is one of the longest-established and most such as BBC, ITV, Sky, The Sun, Daily students. We have developed partnerships prestigious undergraduate journalism Mail, Daily Telegraph and Cosmopolitan with the BBC Talent Pool to give our courses in the UK. It is also one of the most magazine. Our alumni work across students access to careers at Media City innovative. The course offers you practical the globe in places such as the USA, South and we work with ITN to provide work training in all aspects of multimedia America, Hong Kong and Dubai. Some placement opportunities. journalism and media innovation, are working in the new digital media Each year we hold a major employability underpinned by journalism theory. working for websites, data-gathering event – cJAM: Careers in Journalism It is accredited by all three journalism companies, mobile application companies and Media. This is attended by top accreditation bodies: NCTJ, BJTC and and some have even set up their own industry figures across broadcasting, PPA. You will be encouraged to work hard businesses. Journalism skills also transfer newspapers, magazines, music journalism, to complete all the NCTJ diploma exams into a range of communication and web- sports journalism, film-making and digital and emerge from the programme with based careers. media. Our students pitch ideas to these gold-standard professional qualifications in Our MA Journalism and MA Magazine professionals and the best ideas win addition to your degree. Journalism programmes are also NCTJ- students a placement with a top creative Throughout the course, you will be accredited – MA Magazine Journalism company. At our most recent event in encouraged to aim high, to work like a has PPA accreditation as well. We also April, 60 work placement or mentoring professional, to be creative and original and offer BJTC-accredited BA (Hons) opportunities were won by our students to develop as an individual. Journalism Sports Journalism and MA Broadcast with companies such as BBC, Sky News, has been taught in Preston for more Journalism programmes. Additionally, ITN and CN Media. At UCLan, we believe than 50 years and we draw on all this we run BA and MA International our industry links are the key to our experience to provide courses which Journalism programmes for budding students’ success. produce outstanding graduates ready to foreign correspondents, an MA Sports work professionally in journalism, the Journalism, a cutting-edge MA Media creative industries and other allied careers. Innovation and an innovative MA Visual You will become part of our UCLan Journalism, plus a joint honours BA journalism network, joining graduates Journalism and English Language.

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ULSTER UNIVERSITY School of Media, Film and Journalism, Cromore Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry BT52 1SA Contact: Maggie Swarbrick, 028 7032 3130 Email: [email protected] A great experience Website: www.ulster.ac.uk that lasts a lifetime • MA Journalism

UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON Page 27 Study journalism at the University of Brighton’s Chelsea School, Gaudick Road, campus in Hastings: Eastbourne, East Sussex BN20 7SP Taught by professional journalists • NCTJ accreditation • Contact: Jed Novick, 01273 643852 placement opportunities • newsroom with live newsfeed Email: : [email protected] • television studio • two radio studios • professional level Contact: Rob Steen, 01273 643852 equipment Email: [email protected] Website: www.brighton.ac.uk • BA (Hons) Sports Journalism • BA (Hons) Travel Journalism

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE Page 18, 26 NORTH WEST REGIONAL COLLEGE • Part-time Diploma in Multimedia Journalism Dept of Journalism, Preston, Lancs PR1 2HE D3.305 Northland Building NWRC, • Multimedia Sports Journalism Contact: Deborah Robinson (BA), 01772 894749 Strand Road, Derry, BT48 7AL Email: [email protected] Contact: Suzanne Rodgers, 028 7127 6161 ST MARY’S UNIVERSITY, TWICKENHAM Contact: Julie Freer (MA), 01772 894750 Email: [email protected] School of Communications, Culture Email: [email protected] Website: www.nwrc.ac.uk and Creative Arts, Strawberry Hill, Website: www.ukjournalism.org • Academic year Diploma in Journalism Twickenham, London, TW1 4SX • BA (Hons) Journalism Contact: Dr Daragh Minogue, 020 8240 4111 • MA/PgDip Journalism NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY Page 5 Email: [email protected] • MA Magazine Journalism Centre for Broadcasting & Journalism, Website: www.smuc.ac.uk/postgraduate/ Room 2103 Chaucer Building, Goldsmith sports-journalism UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX Page 10 Street, Nottingham, NG1 5LT • MA/PgDip Sports Journalism Dept of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, Contact: (BA) Claire Field, 0115 848 5806 Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, C04 3SQ Email: [email protected] SHEFFIELD COLLEGE Page 29 Contact: Jonathan Baker Contact: (MA) Helen Ainsworth, 0115 848 5803 Livesey Street, Hillsborough, S6 2ET Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Contact: Matthew Neale, 0114 260 2357 Website: www.essex.ac.uk Website: www.ntu.ac.uk/cbj Email: [email protected] • BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism • BA (Hons) Journalism Website: www.sheffcol.ac.uk • MA/PgDip Newspaper Journalism • Fast-track Diploma in Journalism UNIVERSITY OF KENT Page 11, 17 • MA/PgDip Magazine Journalism Centre for Journalism, STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY Page 3, 30 Gillingham Building, Chatham Maritime, PRESS ASSOCIATION TRAINING CENTRE - Department of Journalism, Chatham, Kent ME4 4AG NEWCASTLE College Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2DE Contact: Tim Luckhurst, 01634 202913 Thomson House, Groat Market, Contact: Pete Leydon, 01782 294785 Email: [email protected] Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 1ED Email: [email protected] Contact: Ian Reeves, 01634 202913 Contact: Paul Jones, 0844 836 4000 Website: www.staffs.ac.uk/journalism Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] • BA (Hons) Journalism Website: www.centreforjournalism.co.uk Website: www.becomeareporter.co.uk • BA (Hons) Journalism (two-year) • BA (Hons) Journalism and the News Industry • Diploma in Multimedia Journalism • MA Journalism • MA Multimedia Journalism • Multimedia Sports Journalism TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN PRESS ASSOCIATION TRAINING CENTRE School of Arts and Media, Lincoln School of Journalism, - LONDON Middlesbrough, Tees Valley TS1 3BA Brayford Pool, Lincoln, LN6 7TS 292 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London Contact: Paul Bailey, 01642 342377 Contact: Sue North, 01522 886 273 SW1V 1AE Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Contact: Fiona Webster, 0844 836 4000 Website: www.tees.ac.uk Website: lincoln.ac.uk/home/course/joujouub Email: [email protected] • BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism • BA (Hons) Journalism Website: www.becomeareporter.co.uk • BA (Hons) Sports Journalism • Diploma in Multimedia Journalism • MA Journalism www.pressgazette.co.uk Press Gazette 2015 l 27 NCTJ ad press Gazette AUG 15.qxp_Layout 1 26/08/2015 12:42 Page 1

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NCTJ accredited courses – look for the kitemark of quality journalism training. We don’t sell the dream JOURNALISM TRAINING 2015 UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH Page 29 The School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies, Burnaby Road, of a journalism career. Portsmouth PO1 3AS Contact: Bernie Saunders, 02392 842177 Email: [email protected] Website: www.port.ac.uk We accredit the reality. • BA (Hons) Journalism

UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD School of Arts and Media, MediaCityUK, Salford, M5 2HE Contact: Paul Broster, 0161 295 6362 Email: [email protected] Website: www.salford.ac.uk • MA/PgDip Journalism

UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD Page 29 Department of Journalism Studies, 9 Mappin Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S1 4DT Contact: David Holmes, 0114 222 2501 Email: [email protected] Masters degrees in journalism. Website: www.shef.ac.uk Specialised. • BA Journalism Studies Accredited. • MA/PgDip Print Journalism Vocational. The National Council for the Training of From the UK’s top department. UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND Page 31 Journalists delivers the premier training David Puttnam Media Centre, St Peter’s Journalism Studies at Sheffi eld enjoys a legendary status in the Campus, Sunderland SR6 0DD media industry. Editors know a Sheffi eld graduate can make a world-class journalist. Contact: Lee Hall, 0191 515 2707 scheme for journalists in the UK. Join us and you’ll learn from tutors who’ve worked at the highest level as Email: [email protected] journalists. You’ll learn the principles and practice of hard-hitting ethical Website: www.sunderland.co.uk journalism and sharpen your skills with brand new, high-tech, high-spec • BA Journalism facilities that simulate a real working newsroom. An NCTJ qualification equips students with the skills they need to become effective • BA Broadcast Journalism Accredited by the NCTJ, BJTC and PPA, our MA courses off er specialisms in journalists in a fast-changing multimedia industry. • BA Fashion Journalism print, broadcast and magazines, with an emphasis on digital throughout. • BA Magazine Journalism That’s why our graduates are working for the BBC, Sky, Channel 4, national • BA Sports Journalism newspapers, commercial radio, and other print and digital publications The majority of successful journalists working in print, broadcast and online are • MA Journalism nationally and internationally. NCTJ trained and qualified. • MA Magazine Journalism Find us online today. And be ready to join them. • MA Sports Journalism www.sheffi eld.ac.uk/journalism/masters @sheff journalism Major newspaper and broadcast employers say they prefer NCTJ qualified applicants. UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX PGTG Sheffield Uni.indd 1 19/06/2015 15:46 School of Media, Film & Music, GLOSSARY Here is a guide to some journalism lingo: NCTJ accreditation is the hallmark of excellence for journalism courses. Silverstone Room 220, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 Broadsheet A large format newspaper (such as Masthead The newspaper’s name as it 9RG the Daily Telegraph). But can also include other appears on its front page. up-market tabloid-size titles, such as The Times. Contact: Julie Fletcher, 01273 877538 Tabloid Smaller format newspapers aimed NCTJ accredited courses are available at undergraduate and postgraduate degree Byline Your name at the top of a story. Email: [email protected] at popular market, such as the Daily Mailand Caption Explanatory words next to a photo. level, as fast-track and academic year courses, and as part-time evening and Website: www.sussex.ac.uk The Sun. Chapel Name for the National Union of • MA Multimedia Journalism Off the record A conversation where weekend courses. An NCTJ qualification is also available as part of the trailblazer Journalists group at a publication. your source does not want to be named. They apprenticeship for a junior journalist. Death knock Macabre term for calling at the may still let you quote them as an anonymous home of the relative of a deceased person. source or let you use the information, without Editors’ Code A list of ethical rules which quoting or attribution (on background). NCTJ Training Ltd cover members of IPSO (see below). Off diary Stories which journalists find The New Granary, Station Road, IPSO The Independent Press Standards themselves, rather than news events which Newport, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11 3PL Organisation. Self regulation body covering are known about in advance – so are in Tel: 01799 544014 Fax: 01799 544015 most newspapers and magazines. the diary. For more information, including a E-mail: [email protected] Leader The editorial column of a newspaper. Sub editor A journalist whose job is check Libel A story which harms someone’s Web: www.nctj.com the work of others, lay it out on a page and list of accredited courses, visit reputation. If it is untrue it could cost your write headlines. publication a lot of money. LOOK FOR THE KITEMARK OF www.nctj.com QUALITY JOURNALISM TRAINING www.pressgazette.co.uk Press Gazette 2015 l 29 SPONSORED FEATURE In association with NCTJ Lecturers’ contacts in the industry are invaluable Staffordshire University journalism student Emma James Staffordshire University offers a number of journalism courses which offer the opportunity to take National Council for the Training of Journalists exams. The BA Print Journalism and BA Broadcasting Journalism degrees are accredited by the NCTJ and Broadcast Journalism Training Council respectively.

We are one of only 12 universities in the radio, television and PR industries. The experience in the industry is a huge help country to be accredited by both bodies, lecturers are the main support base here, when it comes to the final year work writes Emma Janes. Something that I and are willing to help you out no matter placement. Their contacts are invaluable believe is integral to student’s success at what the problem is, they are supportive of to getting one or more placements at local Staffs is that for most courses, shorthand whichever branch of journalism you choose newspapers, or broadcasting agencies. I is a core module. We are all encouraged to and there will be one of them who has the myself have completed a work placement at get the industry standard 100 words per connections to help you with regards to a the BBC, which is something I never would minute by the end of our first year, and then work placement. As quickly as your first have applied for without the support of my have the next two to work on getting it in week at Staffordshire University you will lecturers. our own time if we do not. be treated as a working journalist by the The people I met on my placement Here at Staffs we have separate lecturers, and are encouraged to get out have given me invaluable experience of newsrooms for print, video and radio. Of there and find a story. the industry, and contacts that will be of course all students have access to both All work that we do is published on our great use to me in the future. Staffordshire newsrooms; the broadcast newsroom has a news website StaffsLive, which gives a real University supports students after green screen and all the latest technology feel to how quickly copy has to be written, graduation as well, helping them apply to be able to practice what a real life news turned around and amended, as in a real for post graduate jobs or apprenticeships, day would be like. Both of them are kitted working environment. StaffsLive offers helping with interviews and CVs all the way out with state of the art Mac’s and PC’s to students the opportunity to build their along. Students who have been successful enable editing of video, audio and copy. We portfolios with all different genres such as in the past often come back to hold talks also have access to many different types sport, music reviews, theatre reviews and with current students, and the one thing all of cameras and equipment, with a simple news stories, giving us the experience of of them say is how fabulous the lecturers sign up to Siso, for as long as you need many types of story. The lecturer’s previous are at helping, both now and in the future. the equipment. It can be used for press conferences at Stoke City and Port Vale or to add a video to your news piece and much more. We also have a huge library which is open 24/7 in busy exam times, and gives you access to online texts, DVD’s and regular textbooks. All of the lecturers are still active within the industry, with expertise from the online, magazine, newspaper,

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Journalism training can Those from ethnically diverse and lower be an expensive business. income backgrounds can apply for help from the Journalism Diversity Fund, which The Scott Trust and Guardian Media group The most inexpensive way to get your NCTJ provides grants to cover both tuition fees offer five bursaries for MAs in journalism. qualification is via a fast-track course at an and living expenses. www.snipurl.com/gmg_bursary FE College (from around £1,400). But even www.journalismdiversityfund.com then you will still need to find your living Many bursaries are available for particular expenses for up to 20 weeks. At the other The George Viner Memorial Fund run educational institutions. The Daily Mail for end of the scale, tuition fees for a year-long by the NUJ offers financial help to aspiring instance offers a postgraduate scholarship MA course can run to around £10,000. journalists from black and asian backgrounds. at The University of Kent. If the cost of training is deterring you it www.snipurl.com/viner_fund www.snipurl.com/kent_burs may be worth applying for a bursary or grant. The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust If you decide on a particular institution Here is a summary of the some of the together with the Daily Mail offers two it is worth enquiring to find out what main schemes which are available. graduates a year the chance to join its paid bursaries and grants are available. trainee scheme. Those from lower income And if you are at sixth-form college and The Stationers’ Foundation Postgraduate households, or who attend or attended a non- are already sure you want to be a journalist Bursary Scheme also offers 12 bursaries fee paying school or are the first generation it may be worth considering applying for an worth £6,000 to those studying media related of their immediate family to attend university, apprenticeship. It will plunge you straight courses at a number of specific institutions. are “strongly encouraged to apply”. into the world of work but means you can www.snipurl.com/stat_burs www.snipurl.com/mail_grant earn while you learn.

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“What really stood out for me about Sunderland “Get as much hands-on work experience “The access we were given to Sunderland AFC was the wealth of hands-on projects on offer” as possible” and Newcastle United FC was of great benefit” Josh Halliday – Journalism Graduate Zoe Beaty - Journalism Graduate Jamie Orrell – Sports Journalism Graduate Home News Reporter at The Guardian Staff Features Writer, Grazia magazine Production Assistant on Football Week at Future Publishing

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