NCTJ Awards for Excellence now open
The NCTJ Awards for Excellence are open for entries from students and trainee journalists across the UK.
The NCTJ Awards for Excellence are open for entries from students and trainee journalists across the UK.
The awards recognise and reward the best journalism students completing NCTJ courses and journalists with less than two years’ experience in the industry. The awards are also open to those studying the Diploma in Journalism by distance learning and the trainee category will include those with less than two years’ employment in any sector of journalism who have completed the Diploma in Journalism.
The awards continue to be free to enter and winners will be invited to the Journalism Skills Conference gala dinner and awards ceremony in November as guests of the NCTJ.
The categories for students and trainees are:
• news journalism
• sports journalism
• top scoop/exclusive
• features of the year
• multimedia story/campaign of the year
There is a student project of the year category for NCTJ-accredited course providers to submit a student project (newspaper, magazine, website, or broadcast package) which has been produced between September 2015 and August 2016.
There are three performance awards: the student journalist of the year, awarded to the best-performing student based on preliminary exam results and references, and trainee journalist of the year, awarded to the best-performing trainee in the National Qualification in Journalism (NQJ). There is no call for entries for these two awards, as they are based on exam results.
The third performance award is the NCTJ apprentice of the year and was created in 2015. NCTJ apprenticeship training providers and employers are invited to nominate individuals who were doing an NCTJ apprenticeship at any time between September 2015 and August 2016.
Finally, nominations are welcome for the NCTJ chairman’s award, which recognises an individual’s outstanding contribution to high standards of journalism training. Nominations are invited, in no more than 500 words, on why the individual is worthy of this award. He or she could be an editor, a tutor or anyone who has made a meaningful impact on the training of journalists. Recent recipients have included Sue Green, Paul Durrant, David Kett, David Rowell and Amanda Ball.
Joanne Butcher, NCTJ chief executive, said: “Our awards recognise the best new talent coming into journalism and continue to grow, reflecting the increasing diversity of journalists and journalism jobs. Free to enter and whatever the platform, there are award categories for excellence in news, sports, scoops and exclusives, features and campaigns.”
Students and trainees can enter via the student login section of the NCTJ website and all submissions are free of charge. Work entered must have been produced during the period 1 September 2015 to 31 August 2016.
All entries should be sent to the NCTJ before 5pm on Friday, 16 September 2015. Full details of submission guidelines and competition rules are available on our website here.
The NCTJ Awards for Excellence are open for entries from students and trainee journalists across the UK.
The awards recognise and reward the best journalism students completing NCTJ courses and journalists with less than two years’ experience in the industry. The awards are also open to those studying the Diploma in Journalism by distance learning and the trainee category will include those with less than two years’ employment in any sector of journalism who have completed the Diploma in Journalism.
The awards continue to be free to enter and winners will be invited to the Journalism Skills Conference gala dinner and awards ceremony in November as guests of the NCTJ.
The categories for students and trainees are:
• news journalism
• sports journalism
• top scoop/exclusive
• features of the year
• multimedia story/campaign of the year
There is a student project of the year category for NCTJ-accredited course providers to submit a student project (newspaper, magazine, website, or broadcast package) which has been produced between September 2015 and August 2016.
There are three performance awards: the student journalist of the year, awarded to the best-performing student based on preliminary exam results and references, and trainee journalist of the year, awarded to the best-performing trainee in the National Qualification in Journalism (NQJ). There is no call for entries for these two awards, as they are based on exam results.
The third performance award is the NCTJ apprentice of the year and was created in 2015. NCTJ apprenticeship training providers and employers are invited to nominate individuals who were doing an NCTJ apprenticeship at any time between September 2015 and August 2016.
Finally, nominations are welcome for the NCTJ chairman’s award, which recognises an individual’s outstanding contribution to high standards of journalism training. Nominations are invited, in no more than 500 words, on why the individual is worthy of this award. He or she could be an editor, a tutor or anyone who has made a meaningful impact on the training of journalists. Recent recipients have included Sue Green, Paul Durrant, David Kett, David Rowell and Amanda Ball.
Joanne Butcher, NCTJ chief executive, said: “Our awards recognise the best new talent coming into journalism and continue to grow, reflecting the increasing diversity of journalists and journalism jobs. Free to enter and whatever the platform, there are award categories for excellence in news, sports, scoops and exclusives, features and campaigns.”
Students and trainees can enter via the student login section of the NCTJ website and all submissions are free of charge. Work entered must have been produced during the period 1 September 2015 to 31 August 2016.
All entries should be sent to the NCTJ before 5pm on Friday, 16 September 2015. Full details of submission guidelines and competition rules are available on our website here.
