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The NCTJ has welcomed the publication of the government’s green paper, Watch This Space: A New Strategic Direction for UK Media, and its recognition of the importance of trusted news. However, the charity is urging ministers to place greater emphasis…
As football captures national attention, it’s the journalists behind the scenes who bring those stories to life. Journalism Diversity Fund (JDF) recipient and 2025 Football Journalism Bursary winner Angelina Nayar has spent the past year finding exactly how they…
Today the NCTJ publishes a remarkable insight into the work being done by reporters hired as part of the Facebook-backed Community News Project (CNP).
Rebecca Beardmore, community reporter with the Blackpool Gazette, has compiled a diary of a week in her life – highlighting how she is juggling work commitments with her Diploma in Journalism studies, while simultaneously working from home during the coronavirus pandemic and looking after three children.
The National Council for the Training of Journalists will be piloting remote exam sittings in May and June, following a successful two-week testing period.
The first round of the Journalism Diversity Fund in 2020 has concluded with the awarding of thirteen bursaries.
The first round of the Journalism Diversity Fund in 2020 has concluded with the awarding of thirteen bursaries.
"Hunched over an exercise book, carefully practicing the shapes of different letters, some days at my NCTJ course would feel like being back in kindergarten. There was even nightly homework. But I use the things I learned on my 17-week training every day in my role as the FT’s Turkey correspondent."
The National Council for the Training of Journalists is exploring the potential to offer its exams remotely from May using cutting-edge secure proctoring technology and alternative online platforms.
The NCTJ has updated its coronavirus contingency plan, which has been put in place in consultation with its stakeholders to ensure that disruption to NCTJ exams or assessments is minimised as much as possible.
Twenty aspiring journalists have been shortlisted in the first of four Journalism Diversity Fund application rounds in 2020, which marks the 15th anniversary of the fund. Two panels of senior industry figures will interview the shortlisted candidates remotely…
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