A leading UK journalism school and content agency has appointed a senior former Sun journalist as its new editorial consultant.
Graham Dudman, left, who started his career in local newspapers in Manchester, left Rupert Murdoch’s News UK after 20 years this month, having held a number of positions at the tabloid.
Now he has joined the London and Manchester-based training school News Associates, which has been named the UK’s top fast-track journalism course by the National Council for the Training of Journalists for the last two years.
It operates a series of part-time and academic year post-graduate courses under the News Associates and Sportsbeat banners and, from September 2016, will be partnering with the University of St Mark and St John to deliver a new undergraduate BA (Hons) journalism programme in Manchester.
Graham, 52, has been a regular guest speaker at News Associates for the past two years and is a member of the NCTJ’s accreditation panel.
He said: “I am delighted to be working with News Associates. There are some brilliant people teaching there and it will be great to be part of the team,” said Dudman.
“I first came to News Associates several years ago and was immediately impressed by everyone’s attitude and dedication to excellence.
“The NCTJ results speak for themselves. I’m looking forward to helping take News Associates to the next level as the country’s top provider of journalism training.”
News Associates Managing Editor James Toney added: “We are delighted to be able to draw on the advice of a journalist of Graham’s calibre, which will only help us improve the industry leading media training we deliver in London and Manchester.
“Graham’s experience will be invaluable to our trainees as we prepare them for their first steps into the industry and his counsel will help our Heads of Journalism, Rachel Bull and Andrew Greaves, continue to deliver the innovative and practical courses which have been repeatedly recognised as the best in the UK.
“In ten years we have established ourselves as the UK’s leading and largest NCTJ journalism school, training more NCTJ gold standard journalists than anyone else.
“We have bold and ambitious plans for developing our media training with a series of exciting collaborations and Graham’s exciting appointment is important to achieving this vision.”
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Winnets!
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Our future journalists are in safe hands.
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You haven’t mentioned that Graham was cleared of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office after prosecutors formally abandoned the case against him in April this year. He was among nine News International journalists whose cases were dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service. I wish him all the best in his new career.
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Sun sneering in general is a lazy armchair sport.
I’m glad count some of the paper’s past and present editorial execs as friends over many years – often from their local paper office junior era.
The fact – yes, the fact – is that Dudman (who I don’t know personally) will have forgotten more about hard news reporting than most trainees will ever get a sniff of in today’s depleted regional newsrooms.
He’s joining a very class training outfit after two years as an occasional mentor there.
The kids of the future will get an invaluable warts and all experience..
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