Currybet.net: Let’s train journalists for the future, not for the past
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 11:22
Martin Belam: "What concerns me is that there are a whole generation of students who are being encouraged to pay for qualifications that will equip them to work in a 90s newsroom, because the people designing the courses and the industry input the…
Sarah Hartley: Will journalists write off journalists?
Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 15:58
Sarah Harley contrasts a conference she was at on Friday with the NCTJ event the same day: "[A]ttending Friday’s social media seminar in Manchester really brought one issue home to me – the relevance of the journalist is under scrutiny. … At least part of the [NCTJ] conference considered the skills survey carried out among employers and training providers, and what did the employers want of this august body – shorthand! [D]oesn’t this rather exemplify a gulf between what’s actually going on in a landscape where all the rules of engagement are rapidly shifting and what’s perceived to be the issues within (still largely print-centric) newsrooms?" (Amen.)
Press Gazette: Video added to NCE test for photographers
Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 14:51
"Candidates were asked to illustrate a story on the rising cost of fuel by shooting a video for a newspaper website. The video package had to be between three and five minutes long and include at least one interview with audio recorded to a professional standard."
MediaGuardian: Monkey goes to the Society of Editors conference
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 19:34
"Guardian News & Media editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger had an embarrassing admission to make during the presentation of the NCTJ awards for excellence in journalism at the Society of Editors bash in Bristol. "I should not really be doing this," Rusbridger told the room, "because I failed my NCTJ exams." Blimey – there's hope for us all."
NCTJ: Videojournalism for Websites
Monday, 6 October 2008, 09:29
"A short training film offering advice and guidance to students, trainees and journalists on shooting news videos for websites."
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 11:36
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"Malvern Gazette reporter Tarik Al Rasheed was among the top trainee journalists in the country in this year’s professional journalism examinations."
Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 11:32
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Paul Bradshaw: "The need for an NCTJ ‘badge’ seems to be something of a self-perpetuating myth: regional press editors continue to say that they require it, despite evidence that half of the new journalists they take on don’t have NCTJ training. "
Monday, 21 May 2007, 19:09
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"We’ve almost got a totally different reporting team today, as three of our five reporters have gone to Newcastle, to sit their senior exams. …"
