Employers can now recruit apprentices on the new Level 6 Journalist apprenticeship, following the publication of the updated standard by Skills England. The apprenticeship has been moved from Level 7 to better reflect the skills and responsibilities of journalists at…
The NCTJ has today published its annual Quality Assurance and Standards Committee report. The committee oversees quality, fairness and standards across all NCTJ qualifications. The report is published to provide transparency and to share key data on NCTJ qualifications. In…
Sophy Ridge, Sky News presenter, is to present the NCTJ Awards for Excellence this year at the Journalism Skills Conference gala dinner and ceremony, taking place on Thursday, 23 November at Hampton Court Palace.
The National Council for the Training of Journalists have launched a promotional video for the Journalism Diversity Fund, produced by Sky Sports News apprentice Daniel ‘Zinny’ Boswell.
Unconscious bias, mental health and disability were on the agenda at the inaugural diversity in journalism seminar from the National Council for the Training of Journalists, which took place yesterday, 18 October, at Google News Lab in London.
Three Journalism Diversity Fund recipients were presented with bursaries yesterday as part of the annual celebratory event, which was hosted by Google News Lab at their King’s Cross offices.
More than 100 journalists, editors and industry professionals will join the National Council for the Training of Journalists on Wednesday, 18 October at its inaugural diversity in journalism seminar in London, hosted by Google News Lab.
For the second year running, the NCTJ lent its support to the annual Shine School Media Awards, a national competition that aims to encourage and recognise young creative talent in secondary schools.
If you want to work as a journalist, you should probably do the NCTJ training. I strongly believe this now, though a couple of years ago I would have found such a statement profoundly annoying.
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