Birmingham City University (BCU) has become an NCTJ-accredited course provider, delivering the NCTJ Diploma in Journalism as part of its MA Journalism course. The accreditation will expand access to NCTJ training in the West Midlands, supporting efforts to improve diversity…
Community news reporter Grace Price has marked her first year at the Monmouthshire Beacon by covering the town’s worst flooding in recent memory, building a loyal audience across multiple platforms and passing her shorthand. It was a year, she said,…
Fifty-seven per cent of trainees who sat the National Qualification in Journalism (NQJ) exams in March achieved the qualification, a figure comparable to the fifty-five per cent pass rate achieved in March 2018.
When I first decided to undertake an NCTJ fast-track diploma in multimedia journalism, I faced the daunting question of how to fund it. I already had a considerable student debt so was reluctant to take out another loan, and my…
When I first decided to undertake an NCTJ fast-track diploma in multimedia journalism, I faced the daunting question of how to fund it. I already had a considerable student debt so was reluctant to take out another loan, and my…
The NCTJ’s flagship event, the Journalism Skills Conference, will this year take place in the North East of England, hosted by the University of Sunderland.
The NCTJ Awards for Excellence, which recognise the achievements of talented individuals with promising journalism careers ahead of them, is now open for entries for 2019.
Will Gore, executive editor of The Independent, is to become head of partnerships and projects at the National Council for the Training of Journalists.
One of the clearest trends shown in the Journalist at Work research is the increasing number of people who report that they are working as journalists. Data from the Office for National Statistics suggest that there are 73,000 people working as journalists in the UK, an increase from 65,000 in 2012.
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