The growing use of data protection law and barriers to open justice are creating new legal and practical challenges for journalists and news organisations, media law experts have warned.
The NCTJ has appointed Laura Michael to the new role of head of professional development, expanding its support for journalists and news organisations as the industry adapts to rapid technological change.
Time is running out for students and trainees to enter the NCTJ Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The deadline for entries is now just a month away, on 16 September 2011.
38 newly-qualified senior journalists are celebrating this week after being told they had passed July’s National Certificate Examination for reporters.
After gaining her National Certificate last month, Tara Russell, now a senior reporter at the Southern Daily Echo, has added reason to smile after she scooped two awards for her exceptional performance in July’s NCE.
Extremists, murderers and a few outright nutters are just some of the less desirable subjects I’ve had to deal with through my work. The one thing you can say about journalism is that it’s not boring.
John Pienaar, Radio 5 Live's chief political correspondent and presenter of Pienaar's Politics, is to be a keynote speaker at the NCTJ’s Public Affairs Seminar next month.
The NCTJ's alumnus of the month for August is Robert Nisbet, currently Sky News' US correspondent based in Washington D.C and soon to become Europe correspondent in Brussels.
The National Council for the Training of Journalists is to run an exciting one-day seminar on 20 October 2011, at Press Association in London, focusing on integrating digital journalism skills into training.
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