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Student, trainee and apprentice journalists have been honoured in this year’s NCTJ Awards for Excellence, sponsored by News UK.

Paul Derrick, from the Bury Free Press and Suffolk News, has been honoured for his outstanding contribution to journalism training in the newsroom with the NCTJ’s chairman’s award.

As we approach the NCTJ’s Awards for Excellence ceremony taking place on 2 March, we speak to the six apprentices up for the Apprentice of the Year award.

Broadcast journalist and presenter Jo Wilson, from Sky Sports News, is to host this year’s NCTJ Awards for Excellence at Twickenham Stadium.

Twelve outstanding journalists have been rewarded for achieving the best results in the 2021-22 NCTJ Diploma in Journalism exams.

Five high-flying journalists have been shortlisted in the Student of the Year category in the NCTJ’s Awards for Excellence 2022.

Judges have shortlisted 59 students, trainees, apprentices and training providers in the 2022 Awards for Excellence.

One of Scotland’s oldest journalism prizes is being given a new lease of life. Tom Murray (left) presents Colin Simpson with the first award in 1978 while East Fife Mail editor Ian C. Paterson looks on. The TS…