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The NCTJ Awards for Excellence, sponsored by Reuters, are now open for entries.
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Government responds to NCTJ’s Save Quality Journalism Education campaign
The Department for Education has responded to the NCTJ following the launch of the Save Quality Journalism Education campaign, which calls for the reversal of planned cuts to high-cost subject funding for journalism courses in higher education. In a letter…
The BBC, journalism and the future: David Holdsworth
David Holdsworth, controller, English regions, BBC discusses the editorial challenges for the BBC, suggests the skills they will need for the future and recalls memories of his own NCTJ training at the Journalism Skills Conference. Watch the video now.
Mobile journalism masterclass with Marc Settle
Marc Settle, leader of smartphone training at the BBC Academy, delivers a masterclass in mobile journalism at the 2015 Journalism Skills Conference. Watch the full video now.
Journalism training ‘legend’ wins NCTJ chairman’s award
Sue Green, journalism trainer and NCTJ examiner, has been honoured with the 2015 NCTJ chairman’s award for her outstanding contribution to journalism training and education.
Inaugural Paul Durrant award presented at NCTJ awards dinner
Charlotte Austen-Hardy, senior reporter at the Chelmsford Weekly News, is the winner of the inaugural Paul Durrant Award for her outstanding performance in the NCTJ’s National Qualification in Journalism (NQJ) exams.
Winners announced for the NCTJ Awards for Excellence 2015
Student and trainee journalists were honoured at an awards ceremony announcing the winners of the NCTJ Awards for Excellence sponsored by NFL UK in Birmingham on Thursday.
News Associates London tops the results tables at annual NCTJ course provider awards
The multimedia sports journalism course at News Associates London has been named the best performing course at the NCTJ-accredited course performance awards after achieving a 100 per cent gold standard pass rate.
NCTJ plans to introduce optional PR and communications module debated at skills conference
Journalists should be taught the skills of PR and communications as part of their training course, a reporter who left newspapers to join a public relations firm told the NCTJ Journalism Skills Conference.
Some of the best investigative jouralism is being done locally, NCTJ conference told
Regional news outlets are producing some of the best investigative journalism, said Paul Myers, head of the BBC Academy’s investigative hub at the NCTJ Journalism Skills Conference.
Sky News digital chief discusses digital revolution at NCTJ Journalism Skills Conference
We need journalists who are passionate about journalism and who are creative in how they tell a story, Sky News head of digital products Andrew Hawken told an NCTJ conference.
