Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 20 August 2010 at 11:26
Tags: Journalism Jobs, Journalism education, Student Journalism
The 2010 National Student Survey is now out revealing how students rate their journalism degree courses.
It is also reveals what percentage of undergraduates have made it into a job.
When it comes to undergraduate journalism courses, here are the top ten as ranked by student satisfaction:
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 6 August 2010 at 11:03
Tags: Journalism education, Student Journalism
A quick update from the NCTJ on news that the pre-entry journalism course at Warwickshire College is to close.
The NCTJ told Press Gazette the Warwickshire course is the only NCTJ-accredited scheme to have closed because of planned cuts to FE funding.
The NCTJ says it now accredits 68 courses.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 5 August 2010 at 12:06
Tags: Journalism, Journalism education, Student Journalism
A second NCTJ-accredited journalism course has fallen victim to Government further education funding cuts.
Holdthefrontpage reports that the NCTJ pre-entry course at Warwickshire College is to close with three lecturers being made redundant. The lack of subsidy has sent course fees up from £1750 to £3700, and insufficient students have signed up to make the course viable.
The same issue left the only NCTJ-accredited photojournalism course, at Norton College in Sheffield, also facing the threat of closure. Although that course is now going ahead, albeit with increased fees.
NCTJ-accredited FE courses have provided a far more cost-effective, and quicker, route into journalism than more expensive MA degrees.
A typical NCTJ FE course costs around £1,000 and takes 20 weeks, giving students the essential core skills of shorthand, media law, public affairs and news writing. MA courses can cost up to £10,000 and take a whole academic year.
The closing off of these cheaper routes into journalism is only going to make it harder for those from less well-off backgrounds to make it into the profession.
UPDATE (6 August 2010): In response to the comment below I’ve checked the last Press Gazette Journalism Training Supplement, and those course fee figures are a little wide of the mark. Expect to pay typically £5,000 for an MA and £1,500 to £3,000 for an FE course.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 21 July 2010 at 09:14
Tags: Journalism, People, Student Journalism
Sean Lightbown, a student at Bath University, has become the recipient of the Sports Journalists’ Association training bursary.
SJA committee member Keith Elliott said: “We were very impressed by Sean’s maturity and by what he had done with the university’s sports pages. He’s got the right attitude and I reckon he’ll do very well.” (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 20 July 2010 at 08:26
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Customer publishing, Magazines, National Newspapers, Student Journalism
The Sun has launched a competition for budding journalists aged 16-21 to find the next Kelvin MacKenzie or Jane Moore.
Column Idol is being run with the charity Media Trust and offers the winner the chance to have a full-page column published in the paper, to visit the Sun offices and receive mentoring from top Sun staffers. Details of how to enter are here.
Meanwhile the Periodical Publishers Association has launched a new mentoring scheme called Magnet to promote diversity in magazine publishing. Under the scheme students from “under represented groups” on PTC-accredited courses will be matched with mentors from the magazine industry and offered work experience, guidance and networking opportunities.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 3 June 2010 at 10:26
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, Student Journalism
Almost half of the places on the BBC’s journalism training scheme in the last three years have gone to candidates from ethnic minorities, a report has claimed.
A Freedom of Information request by the Daily Telegraph discovered that out of the 51 places made available since 2007 under the scheme, 24 (47 per cent) have gone to candidates from ethnic minorities. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 26 May 2010 at 09:05
Tags: Broadcast, Student Journalism, Television
Channel 4 is offering three lucrative training bursaries to study for an MA in television journalism at City University which are worth £24,000 in fees, living expenses and paid work experience. They are aimed, they say, at journalists with a “thorough understanding of either the Pakistani, Bangladeshi or African Caribbean community”.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 20 May 2010 at 06:44
Tags: Journalism, Magazines, Student Journalism
The Sports Journalists’ Association (SJA) is to offer a training bursary aimed at helping students and recent graduates keen to start a career in journalism.
In collaboration with media training company, PMA Media Training, the SJA is offering a bursary worth £1,800 – half the full fees for the PMA course which will lead to one student gaining a post-graduate certificate in magazine journalism. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 17 May 2010 at 10:44
Tags: Newspapers, Student Journalism, awards
The NCTJ has made a call for entries after opening its Awards for Excellence in Journalism 2010
Entries will this year be accepted in five award categories: news, sports, scoops, features and images.
In addition, the NCTJ will also present a Chairman’s Award and a Performance Award.
The prize-giving celebrates achievements of students on NCTJ courses and trainee journalists with less than two years’ experience working toward the NCE.
The awards are free to enter and information on categories, what the judges will be looking for, and entry details are available by visiting nctjawards.com.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 17 May 2010 at 09:55
Tags: Journalism, Journalism Jobs, National Newspapers, Regional Newspapers, Student Journalism
Ed Caesar has had an in-depth look at the employment prospects for the current crop of journalism graduates for the Sunday Time magazine – and the results make sobering reading.
He reckons that 1,870 students were on post-graduate journalism courses in 2008/2009 compared with 763 a decade earlier. And he estimates that the number of students on undergraduate journalism degrees has increased from 1,972 a decade ago to 8,095.
So there has been an explosion in journalism training which mirrors a fairly steep contraction in journalism jobs.
Press Gazette reckons that in the regional newspaper industry alone, around one in five journalism jobs may have been axed in the last two years.
Caesar looks at the British Press Awards young journalist of the year nominees for 2008 to find out how they all got in to the national press.
He concludes that as well as dogged persistence, aspiring journalists will need to be prepared to work for nothing if they want to get on to the nationals.
He writes: “Journalism remains a meritocracy only for those who can afford it. Because work experience is so important, almost all aspiring journalists need to work in London, for free, at some point in their careers.”
As Caesar’s piece shows, it remains something of a scandal the way national newspapers exploit the dreams of aspiring journalists on the work-experience treadmill.
Two-week work placements are a two-way street, with the trainees contributing their time and effort in exchange for a certain amount of mentoring and the chance to see their name in print (that’s the way it works at Press Gazette).
But if they are good enough to warrant having around any longer than that – they should be paid. And all reputable news organisations should have guidelines in place to make sure this happens.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 7 May 2010 at 12:04
Tags: Broadcast, New Media, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers, Student Journalism, press freedom
If you’ve ever wondered how to set up your own profitable local newspaper, website or magazine – or are looking for ways to breath new life into an existing local publication – Local Heroes 2010 is the conference for you.
It is next Friday, 14 May, at Kingston University in South West London (20 minutes by train from Waterloo) and there are still places left.
Ticket prices are £25 for students, £50 for members of the NUJ and Press Gazette subscribers, £80 for university lecturers and £100 full price.
Wanja Oberhof is flying in from Berlin to reveal how he has persuaded more than 5,000 mainly young Berliners to subscribe to daily personalised newspaper Niiu using the latest digital printing technology.
Sir Ray Tindle will explain how he built up a regional press empire from nothing and reveal why he is still launching new local newspapers now.
There will be sessions featuring journalists who have started profitable local blogging sites, publishers who have defied the recession to launch new print titles and editors who have achieved success against the odds during the toughest media recession in history.
The culmination of the day will be a debate on the biggest question facing British journalism today: On whether it is time to end the web-first free for all for news.
If you care about local news and want to find out how to have a great future in it then Local Heroes is this year’s essential conference.
SPEAKER UPDATE: Alan Geere - editor-in-chief of Essex Chronicle Media Group - is to be one of the speakers in the great debate.
Go straight to the booking page (click on book this course).
Or else reserve your place by emailing Lisa Hall, l.hall@kingston.ac.uk or calling her on 0208 417 2853.
Posted by
Richard Boase
on 14 April 2010 at 11:11
Tags: BBC, Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Student Journalism
Journalism students from University College Falmouth will be flying to India this week to take up work placements with BBC Magazines.
Camilla Delacoe and Ben Sullivan will start month-long placements on Monday on the Indian editions of Grazia and Lonely Planet magazines.
Their placements are the result of a partnership between BBC Magazines and the undergraduate course at Falmouth. They are meeting transport costs themselves.
Posted by
Nicole Canning
on 29 March 2010 at 10:10
Tags: Journalism, Newspapers, Student Journalism
Students from diverse backgrounds wishing to pursue a career in journalism could receive financial help from the NCTJ Diversity Fund - which is now accepting applications.
The Diversity Fund aims to support the training of people wishing to study journalism but struggle with the funding of a NCTJ-accredited course. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 16 February 2010 at 15:23
Tags: Journalism, Student Journalism
Roger Kasper, editor of the Sevenoaks Chronicle, has got in touch with another tale about adventures in work experience - following yesterday’s story about journalism student Chris Slater who had to ride into Tesco on a bicycle for The Sun.
When the Tesco superstore in Sevenoaks put up a notice telling customers to wear a shirt when they shopped, Roger decided to send in work experience trainee Matt Savage to test it out.
Explains Roger: “Off he went to get thrown out of Tesco, but served in Marks and Spencer, Co-op and Sainsbury’s. And a great feature was had by all. Ladies, check out his pecs.”
And this on one of the coldest winters on record! Somebody please give that lad a job.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 16 February 2010 at 11:53
Tags: Newspapers, People, Student Journalism
The Press Association is to launch a new multimedia foundation training course in London.
The new course, which will run from the Press Association’s headquarters in Vauxhall Bridge Road, will be based on the schemes the news agency runs from its training centre in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (more…)
Posted by
India Adams
on 15 February 2010 at 12:17
Tags: Journalism, Student Journalism
Leading editors told student journalists that NCTJ qualifications, in particular shorthand and law, alongside a decent amount of work experience and enthusiasm by the bucket load, would ensure they could compete in the tough jobs market of today.
Editors Brien Beharrell from the Newbury Weekly News, Joroen Bergmans from easyjet Traveller, Graham Dudman (managing editor at The Sun), Dave King from the Swindon Advertiser and Dominic Ponsford from Press Gazette were quizzed by 43 members of the NCTJ Student Council at Guardian News and Media’s headquarters in London on Friday.
Graham Dudman, managing editor of The Sun, was on the panel and offered students this advice: “Number one is shorthand and number two is law. I want to know that you can write shorthand at 100wpm.”
He added: “Submit a CV that’s no more than two pages long. You might think you’re the most important person in the world; frankly you’re not. Any spelling mistakes would go in the bin and do some research into the newspaper before you apply.”
Rosemary Lowne, studying MA Journalism at Cardonald College, Glasgow, said of the day: “For me the highlight of the day was the Q&A session with the panel of editors as their advice was extremely helpful.”
Posted by
Katrina McLachlan
on 15 February 2010 at 10:37
Tags: Agencies, National Newspapers, Student Journalism
Journalism student Chris Slater was told to ride into Tesco on a bicycle as his first national press assigment whilst on work experience for Cavenish Press news agency in Manchester. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 4 January 2010 at 11:46
Tags: National Newspapers, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers, Student Journalism
(UPDATE: Tim Dowling you’re in luck – Hackney Gazette is looking for a chief reporter…)
The Guardian has kicked the year off by sending its crack team of feature writers off to explore their dream jobs.
Imagine Press Gazette’s surprise when Tim Dowling – a writer sans journalism training - admitted to secretly hankering a desire to trade in his comfortable wage and two or three pieces a week for a bash as a local reporter, conducting death knocks and cranking out copy for a miserly £15,000. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 12 November 2009 at 12:02
Tags: Journalism, Student Journalism
Time to celebrate. It’s shorthand week.
Posted by
Gary Neale
on 12 October 2009 at 10:03
Tags: Journalism, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers, Student Journalism, awards
The Chorley Guardian bagged another scoop when it covered the 02 Media awards held to recognise journalism in the North West of England last week. (more…)
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