Community News Project reporter Grace Price shares her experience of balancing NCTJ exams with full-time reporting and building relationships with local communities.
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.
Thirty aspiring journalists have been shortlisted in the second Journalism Diversity Fund application round of 2019. Four panels of senior industry figures will interview the shortlisted candidates at Bloomberg in London on Thursday, 25 July and Friday,…
The first level 6 National Qualification in Journalism (NQJ) exams were sat on Friday, July 5 by trainees hoping to achieve 'senior journalist' status.
This time last year I was watching The Fourth Estate on TV – a documentary following journalists working in a busy, fast-paced national newsroom. I kept imagining what it would be like to be in their shoes. They were…
A team of NCTJ staff members and supporters walked 15km to raise money for the Thomas Read bursary, helping people with disabilities train as journalists.
Journalism is at a crossroads. If we take the wrong route at this point the ambushes, the attacks and the grenades will keep on flying and the future for truth, impartiality and independence will look dismal indeed.
Back in September I was awarded the Thomas Read bursary by the JDF which allowed me to study at News Associates in London. As part of the bursary, two weeks work experience at Sky Sport News was included and…
In order for newsrooms to best reflect our communities, it’s vital schemes such as the Journalism Diversity Fund exist.Having always wanted to be a journalist from as early as I can remember, when I left my comprehensive school the…
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