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NCTJ accredited courses – look for the kitemark of quality journalism training. We don’t sell the dream JOURNALISM TRAINING 2014 of a journalism career. Contents
4-5 Introduction to journalism training from 4 9 Kim Fletcher of the NCTJ and Press Gazette We accredit the reality. editor Dominic Ponsford 7-9 Sarah Sands, David Dinsmore, Steve Lamacq and Lorraine Candy on training with the NCTJ
10-11 Recent NCTJ graduates who have ‘made it’ share their stories
12-13 Ten pearls of wisdom for aspiring journalists
15-19 Complete directory of NCTJ journalism courses
21 Tips on how to fund your journalism training
22 Piers Morgan, Ian Hislop, Jon Snow and others on why journalism is the ‘best job in the world’
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LOOK FOR THE KITEMARK OF www.nctj.com QUALITY JOURNALISM TRAINING www.pressgazette.co.uk Press Gazette 2014 l 3 JOURNALISM TRAINING 2014 In association with NCTJ JOURNALISM TRAINING 2014 Want to be a journalist? Don’t blag it, get You’re in the right place the right training Whether you want to talk truth to power or just meet celebs, you are going Dominic Ponsford that aren’t accredited by the NCTJ, by all to need proper training if you want to make it as a journalist is the editor of journalism news website means do your own research. But there are Press Gazette also many bad ones. At post-graduate level the options range If you want to be a journalist, a theoretical from a fast-track 20-week course in the core Journalism is a competitive industry in course in media or journalism studies NCTJ skills (which is the cheapest option) to which to get ahead, so if you are reading won’t qualify you to do the job. Journalism taking a fully-fledged MA. this supplement, well done – you have requires practical skills – particularly news Only you can decide what route will work With an NCTJ qualification, already given yourself the inside edge. writing and shorthand – and all NCTJ best for you. “you will feel confident that you It is possible to get a job in journalism courses provide these. This guide, which is sponsored by the can make a contribution to any without taking specialist training, but it is It used to be the case that a good general NCTJ, aims to provide an introduction to media organisation so much easier to get your foot in the door degree in say history or English, followed by the world of journalism that could save you ” if you have the right qualifications. a journalism postgraduate course was the a huge amount of time and effort. Essential journalism skills like shorthand, preferred route into the industry. Nowadays I would say this – but to keep up with media law and news writing can’t be busked journalists take many different routes in. the latest developments in the industry or blagged. You could opt to do a degree in journalism you could do a lot worse than read www. The NCTJ has been accrediting training that is accredited by the NCTJ, so includes pressgazette.co.uk every day. courses since 1951 and awards a qualification the practical skills you will need. Persistence, curiosity, a refusal to give that all editors know about and probably Or you might also want to consider taking up and a little writing ability are the key have themselves. So passing an NCTJ course a first degree in a subject that will come in attributes a journalist needs. should open doors for you. handy to you in your journalism career: So If you have those, together with NCTJ There are some good journalism courses maybe a language, law or computing. training, you will make it. Good luck!
Kim Fletcher is chairman of the NCTJ and a former editorial director of the Telegraph Study Journalism at the University of Sunderland
You’re reading this because you think you’d there is so much material around, people staff big news agencies and new websites. like to be a journalist? Is it because you’re tend to go to sites they feel they can In short, they find jobs in all outlets. You We offer a range of high quality specialist inquisitive and gossipy, you like finding out trust when they are looking for news and don’t have to pass a qualification to work what’s going on and telling people all about information – sites produced by people as a journalist, but when you are looking for postgraduate and undergraduate degrees it? Or you want to talk truth to power and who believe in some basic premises of work, you will find it is easier to get people delivered by industry professionals and leading protect our democracy by exposing the good reporting. Second, if you want to to take you seriously when you have. academics in exceptional facilities wickedness of those in power over us? No? get paid for what you do, you need to find On the following pages you will find a wide You just want to meet celebrities and go to someone to employ you or buy your work range of NCTJ courses and qualifications, Each course is accredited by the NCTJ fashion parties and get paid to be at big on a freelance basis. The people with the including one that could be right for you. (National Council for the Training of Journalists) sports events? That’s fine too. If you answer money – newspapers, radio and TV stations, We accredit courses at colleges, universities “yes” to any of the above, there’s a place websites, new entertainment and content at undergraduate and postgraduate level MA Journalism for you somewhere in the media. Here’s companies – tend to be more impressed by and independent providers. Other options MA Magazine Journalism a job that can be demanding, exciting, people who can show they know what they include apprenticeships and distance MA Sports Journalism entertaining, unpredictable, dangerous, are doing. learning. There are courses for school mischievous, fulfilling and – at its most That’s why it’s worth looking into leavers, for undergraduates and graduates, BA (Hons) Journalism serious – important. the National Council for the Training of for those looking to make a career change. BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism The truth is you can call yourself a Journalists and the qualifications we offer. A course accredited by the NCTJ will teach BA (Hons) Magazine Journalism journalist tomorrow. You can have an Trainee journalists who attend the courses you practical skills, together with the opinion or go and find stuff out and create we accredit and take our examinations are knowledge you need in such areas as media BA (Hons) Sport Journalism a blog or put some video up on YouTube. able to show they have the practical skills law, government and ethics. BA (Hons) Broadcast Journalism also BJTC accredited You might even find some people who to work in all areas of the industry, on every What else do you need? Passion, drive want to look at it. There are millions of platform created in this new world of digital and a real belief in what you are doing. If words and miles of video on the internet, media. Journalists with our qualifications you have read this far, you probably have For further information and only a fraction of it is coming from are on local and national those. There are easier jobs, more secure email: [email protected] professional journalists. So why bother with newspapers; they report regional and jobs, certainly jobs where you will earn or Tel +44 (0)191 515 3592 / 3258 a qualification? international news for the BBC, ITV and more money. But is there a job you could or visit www.sunderland.ac.uk For two reasons. First, precisely because Sky and commercial radio stations; they enjoy as much? Only you can say.
4 l 2014 Press Gazette www.pressgazette.co.uk www.pressgazette.co.uk Press Gazette 2014 l 5 SPONSORED FEATURE JOURNALISM TRAINING 2014 Future forward From tiny acorns… The News Academy is investing in the future of journalism, We speak to some star names from the media helping 16-18 year olds discover more about the media and how to build a successful career who trained with the NCTJ Do you still use your NCTJ skills? What do you think was the benefit of GET PUBLISHED Very much so. Whenever I’m handed a going down the NCTJ route? ‘verbal’ to read on air, I always sub it down I learnt about the importance of detail, of and WIN £100 of first. And it’s incredibly handy knowing a getting every fact no matter how small right Amazon vouchers little about the laws of libel when you’re and it taught me to think about the story in broadcasting to a nation. a smart way not just a formula. 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What do you think was the benefit of journalists are constantly setting a rare insight into what it’s really Students will get advice and guidance on going down the NCTJ route? Do you still use your NCTJ skills? the news agenda. like to be a journalist along with how to find the hottest news stories, before I think it gave us a strong understanding I have my shorthand which is now about incredible opportunities for young writing, editing and then producing their own of what sort of person you needed to be eight words a minute rather than 100. And The Times Established more than 200 students considering it as a career. newspaper. It’s an incredible opportunity to years ago, The Times is one of the world’s most to become a good journalist. It was also I am in the business of story-telling which Best of all, there are lots of different make contacts and ensure your CV stands out respected newspaper titles thanks to the quality interesting spending time with other is what good journalism is in many ways. I ways you can get involved. from the crowd. and depth of its journalism. It continues to break would-be writers and reporters. There are am organised and you can always get hold To apply, visit www.news.co.uk/academy the biggest and most talked about stories such things I picked up at college, especially law, of me. I loved my days on local newspapers. We’ll visit your school… as the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons which have come in very handy. When people ask what I do I say I am a Through the News Academy, schools and We’ll invite you to exclusive events… against its own people, and is home to opinion- Also, it meant going into local newspapers journalist, not an editor. It’s the thing I love forming columnists, including Caitlin Moran and colleges can request visits by leading The News Academy holds day-long for a while where I learned how to sub. And most about my job. Matthew Parris. journalists from our newspapers: The Times, conferences across the country where from there I got a job as a sub editor with the The Sunday Times and The Sun. students can meet and discuss subjects The Sun Read by around 12 million people New Musical Express. I was one of only two If you knew then (when you were It’s the perfect way to find out first-hand affecting the world of media with leading a week, The Sun is the UK’s most successful and qualified journalists on the paper at the time, starting out) what you know now what everything that this fascinating industry has journalists, politicians and influential people biggest-selling newspaper. It’s all thanks to the so when the news editor job finally came up, would you done differently? to offer. from across the industry. winning mix of celebrity scoops, unbeatable I was at the front of the queue, and that was Editor of Elle UK I would have kept a diary like Piers! sports coverage and legendary contributors For example, in April, the editor of The In 2014, we’ve held events in Glasgow, a really big break for me. Lorraine Candy such as Dear Deidre, Mystic Meg and Ian Wright Sun, David Dinsmore, visited Strathallan Cardiff, Dublin, Manchester and London, together with a commitment to reporting the What do you look for in a journalist School in Perth to tell pupils what it’s like to which have attracted big names from First truth and championing the things that matter Advice to an aspiring journalist? Where and when did you do your NCTJ who want to work for Elle? head up Britain’s biggest selling newspaper, Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond to Editor to its readers. Start thinking about what sort of reporter or training? The majority of my staff come down the from the highs to the lows and all the funny of The Times, John Witherow and the chief writer you want to be. A lot of people on my I did my NCTJ training on South London journalism route. incidents in between. executive of digital news agency, Storyful. Next The Sunday Times The UK’s number course wanted to be reporters in Fleet Street News Group papers starting on the You need to be curious, persistent and David explained: “I caught the bug for year, we have further conferences planned one Sunday paper has won countless awards in the 1980s. I always had a feeling I wanted Wimbledon News, and working across the demanding. If some one is paying £4 for a for its outstanding investigative journalism, journalism at Strathallan and it was great to with more great guests. to be more of a feature writer. 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6 l 2014 Press Gazette www.pressgazette.co.uk www.pressgazette.co.uk Press Gazette Autumn 2012 l 7 UCLan leads the way JOURNALISM TRAINING 2014 If you knew then (when you were shorthand. Undeterred, he managed to get a starting out) what you know now is local newspaper job anyway and eventually there anything you would do differently? passed his 100 words per minute shorthand in teaching journalism My career has been lucky but fairly at the “25th attempt”, going on to pass his accidental (and full of accidents). I would NCTJ senior journalist qualification, the NCE plan a bit better, decide a field of journalism certificate, on the job. and master it completely. Think what you can offer and work as How useful was your journalism hard as you can. Jobs and stories rarely fall training? Evening Standard editor into your lap. Sign up for under covered I don’t think journalism is something you Sarah Sands areas and anti social hours. can teach in a classroom, but you can give people the basic infrastructure that they Where and when did you do your NCTJ What do you look for in journalists? can then go out and build on. I still think training? I look for someone bright, resourceful and working on a local newspaper is the best I did NCTJ training on the Kent and Sussex cheerful. training you can get. Courier in the early 80s. What advice would you give to an What do you think was the benefit of aspiring journalist? going down the NCTJ route? There might be 100 people who say they Basic discipline. Correct spellings of want to be a journalist, but only one or names still keep me awake at night. Also two will go out and find stories, work hard understanding the law is pretty crucial. and push themselves forward – and it is those who will go on to work for national Advice to an aspiring journalist? newspapers. They are the ones who aren’t Go out to find the stories – and make sure going to sit back and be guided by the you use spell check. Sun editor newsdesk but will be coming up with their David Dinsmore own ideas and stories. Do you still use your NCTJ skills? Now there are more opportunities but it’s My shorthand is a bit ropey now although I Dinsmore took a two-year journalism course not as clear what they are. But the thing think I can still do ‘Madam chairman, ladies at Edinburgh’s Napier University but was people still want are stories, and they want and gentlemen’. thrown off it after a year because he failed them more than ever before.
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What do News at Ten presenter Mark We speak to four recent NCTJ journalism trainees who Austin, TV presenter Simon Reeve, CNN Anchor Manisha Tank, and Highbury College have already made a splash in the industry Executive Editor of the Huffington Post Stephen Hull have in common? They all started their careers in the media by studying at Highbury College, Portsmouth. A major part of Highbury’s offering is the high quality work experience trainees will get – whether that’s working with one of our media partners or taking part in learning company projects for real clients alongside media professionals. Our NCTJ journalism students benefit innovation with great, tangible results”, or become involved in making programmes from an award-winning training partnership adding, “These trainee journalists are for the channel. with local paper The News (Portsmouth), getting proper, hands on experience in a Contact us to find out more at which sees them working alongside real busy newsroom.” [email protected] reporters on a daily basis. This ‘classoom New for 2014/15: New regional TV Reporter for the BBC News website within a newsroom’ means our students station ‘Solent TV’ is coming to Highbury. Lauren Potts are already writing stories and features The station will broadcast across for publication on a daily basis, alongside Portsmouth, Southampton and the Isle of Where did you train? their studies. Ashley Highfield, Chief Wight, and involve students in all aspects of News Associates in Manchester on the 20- Executive of Johnston Press, commended production. Trainees will be able to choose whether to work in the studios, on location week fast-track course in 2009/2010 after the partnership as “a real example of Guardian Egypt correspondent Patrick Kingsley was named new taking a degree in drama and English at journalist of the year at the 2013 British Journalism Awards Manchester University. I did a lot of journalism at university and travellingfor Press upAssociation to London as when a video I didn’t journalist, have Where and when did you do your NCTJ audio on your phone. Pitch ideas to editors. graduated in 2008. lectures.travelling As up soon to London as I graduated when I didn’t I went have on training? Maybe you’ll make some mistakes early on, tolectures. the graduate As soon programme as I graduated at Bloomberg I went on I did the NCTJ fast-track diploma at but that’s how you’ll learn how to get better. How did you find the course? 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5 Get on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and any other social media platform you can think If I knew then what I know now of. Social media is very important in journalism nowadays.
6 The same goes for data. Data journalism is another buzz phrase in the industry. It basically involves taking large, dull-looking groups of numbers and finding stories in them. Again, if you …10 pearls of wisdom can learn some data skills you are going to put yourself in front of a lot of the competition. At its most basic it could just be getting a list of election results, putting them into a spreadsheet and If I was starting out in journalism today this is the advice I would give then using a programme such as Datawrapper to create a pretty graph that you cut and paste into your website. Believe it or not, becoming a whizz with Excel is one of the most useful skills myself, writes Press Gazette editor Dominic Ponsford you can have as a journalist.
1 Practice, practice, practice. I was lucky enough to be able get high marks in most academic exams through last-minute cramming. That 7 Enjoy yourself. Journalism is not the best paid job in the world. People do it because it is fun and maybe because they also want to make a won’t work in journalism, it is a craft and requires practice to perfect. Writing a good news story intro is like hitting a good tennis serve, the only difference. There is a great tradition in this country of controlled anarchy in newsrooms. Keep it up. way you are going to get it right is by trying and failing a number of times. Get all the experience you can, particularly on student publications. And be patient. News writing is a precise discipline that is very different from the academic style. 8 Oh, and about the money. Journalism can be low paid considering the high level of skills and training that it requires. Starting salaries are typically around £14-18,000. Even a senior reporter on a local paper might be on £20-25,000. But the sky’s the limit earnings-wise for star 2 Shorthand. It’s the skill that sets the serious journalist apart from the enthusiastic amateur. Like news writing it will only come with a lot of jourrnalists and the profession can also be a grounding for a more lucrative career in PR, corporate communications, or even politics. Money may practice so as soon as you have decided to do journalism training buy a shorthand textbook (Teeline) and start learning it. A shorthand speed of not matter to you so much now, but it may in 10 years time. So it is worth considering that more conventional professions like teaching or the police 100 words per minute is essential for any general news reporter job because without it you can’t cover court (where tape recorders are banned). generally pay more than journalism (and they have better pensions). That said, they don’t have nearly as much fun.
3 Unless you have a bloody good memory you are going to need avoice recorder and a telephone mic. While you are getting your shorthand 9 When it comes to getting your first job, treat your covering letter and CV with as much care as a front page story. If speed up use an in-ear telephone mic (about £10 on Amazon) to tape phone interviews. You will also need your smartphone or dictaphone to record you write an application that grabs the reader’s attention, which shows (but doesn’t tell) how you are the most enthusiastic and best suited face to face interviews. Even when you have 100 words per minute shorthand you will need to record longer interviews as people speak a lot faster person for that job, you will get an interview. Most people write dull, formulaic covering letters full of stock phrases such as “I have a passion than that. for...”, “I am honest and hard working”, “I’m a good team player”. These go straight in the bin. Show you can write with flare and originality.
4 Become a geek. There is a debate about whether traditional skills such as shorthand are as important as new skills such as computer coding. 10 Remember with stories, finding a job, getting on a course and many other aspects of journalism,every no gets you closer to a yes. You It’s not either or, get them all. If you can learn the basics of HTML (the code behind web pages) and other computer languages such as Python you have to fail in this game in order to succeed. Don’t get disheartened, because everyone has been there. If you really want to become a journalist, you will dramatically improve your employability. Create your own blog and experiment with embedding widgets and other digital bells and whistles. will become one. I have seen enough aspiring journalists come through Press Gazette to know that those who really want it all get there in the end.
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