NCTJ Reporting exam: worse than giving birth?
Some of our students did their NCTJ Reporting exam today. Their comments ranged from ‘An evil paper’ to ‘It made giving birth seem like a breeze!’ and ‘I’m at my wits’ end.’ I’ve been preparing...
View ArticleLooking for a job in Journalism?
People often ask me for the best sites for journalism jobs. Here’s a selection: www.pressgazette.co.uk http://www.nctj.com/careers/trainee-vacancies http://jobs.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/...
View ArticleQuestion: should a journalist, or an editor, change a quote?
Answer: No! But there are some grey areas. Ideally, you should leave the quote exactly as it is, apart from tidying up the punctuation, slang and the ums and aahs. It can be hard to make quotes fit...
View ArticleSome tips for the NCTJ diploma exams
This is the third in Cleland’s series of specimen NCTJ law exam answers that include terminology under the new Defamation Act 2013. They are used by students in our distance learning centre. See the...
View ArticleSome more tips for the NCTJ diploma exams
Are you on an NCTJ diploma course? Then here’s another Essential Law exam answer that has been adapted under the Defamation Act 2013. This question concerns Councillor Brown, and whether she / he must...
View ArticlePersuasive writing: make it a date
This is the last in my series on persuasive writing. Hopefully you’re still with me! A guy on our sports journalism course told me yesterday that had already tried some of the techniques … one to get a...
View ArticleMore NCTJ essential law exam tips
It’s great that this series on NCTJ essential law exam answers is proving so popular. If you have not seen the series before, it provides answers to questions that involve the new Defamation Act 2013,...
View ArticleNCTJ law exams: a helping hand
Thanks to those of you on NCTJ journalism courses who have expressed appreciate for our blog posts featuring NCTJ law exam answers. We’ve even had people doing blogging courses who are interested in...
View ArticleMore NCTJ law exam tips
Here’s the latest in our series of specimen answers to NCTJ diploma law questions involving defamation: students on NCTJ journalism courses will find them helpful. This one – and the others I’ve...
View ArticleSome tips for those NCTJ diploma exams
Students doing our NCTJ journalism courses know only too well that the Essential PA exam is coming up next week. We even have students on our blogging course and education writing course sitting it...
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