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      • NCTJ vice-chairman and board appointments announced
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      • Question time panel debate the future of quality journalism
      • Board members discuss Student Council feedback
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      • NCE exam times change
      • Students to share their opinions at annual meeting
      • Six trainee journalists receive bursaries
      • New NCTJ accreditation board meets to review strategy and re-accredits six courses
      • Sky News names NCTJ student as Bob Friend memorial scholar
      • NCTJ course “proved life-changing for me” says successful BBC Online reporter.
      • A fond farewell to three long-serving NCTJ board members
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      • Piers Morgan: NCTJ training was “the perfect skill base”
      • Accuracy, shorthand, media law and great content ideas are skills we want say editors
      • Journalism skills debated by top editors from Welsh media
      • NCTJ chairman stresses the importance of multimedia journalism skills
      • Helen Skelton: NCTJ qualifications "relevant and respected"
      • Distance learner is Archant Newcomer of the Year
      • Updated short course pages
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      • Top media law performers recognised
      • NCE assessor awarded New Year MBE
      • Success for NCTJ photography trainees
      • Winners of photography NCE awards announced
      • Courier award seals a winning week for NCTJ-accredited course
      • Successful magazine editor pays tribute to her NCTJ training
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      • Dunfermline Press reporter wins prestigious TS Murray award
      • Trainees determined to pass NCE despite recession
      • Award-winning BBC presenter John Inverdale is the NCTJ’s alumnus of the month
      • Managing editor of Guardian News and Media to chair new NCTJ accreditation board
      • BA (Hons) Journalism at Brunel University becomes latest NCTJ-accredited course
      • Packed schedule announced for Journalism Skills Conference 2009
      • New chair and chief examiner of Public Affairs examination board
      • NCTJ-trained journalist wins Cudlipp award at British Press Awards
      • NCE Prize winners announced
      • NCTJ exam procedures strengthened
      • Shorthand exam format to change from September
      • Record NCTJ Student Council attendance anticipated
      • Journalism Skills Conference opened by topical Welsh Minister
      • NCTJ is up to task of training new generation of multimedia journalists says MP and blogger
      • Shorthand prize winners announced at seminar
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      • Trainee journalists prepare to sit the NCE
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      • NCTJ Awards for Excellence shortlist announced
      • Evocative writing and entertaining style are hallmarks of NCE award-winning journalists
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      • Multimedia skills event to shape future of journalism training
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