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Multimedia qualification devised after positive press feedback
Video, blogs and online writing to come into new preliminary exams
Journalists' training body moves to launch online option
Prelim exam to help reporters operate in a multi-media environment is piloted
Successful NCE candidates – Autumn 2006
Fifty per cent of candidates pass NCTJ exams – see the full roll of honour here
Successful NCE candidates – Spring 2006
Who qualified from your newspaper? See the full pass list here
Successful NCE candidates – Spring 2005
The following candidates, listed under the centre at which they sat the examination, have now gained the National Certificate: BOURNEMOUTH Samantha Chapman Aldershot News Gary Cleland Newbury Weekly News Matthew Dickinson The News, Portsmouth Huw Griffith Dorset Echo Lisa-Marie Harrity
Successful NCE candidates – Spring 2004
The following candidates, listed under the centre at which they sat the examination, have now gained the National Certificate. Click here to see the successful photographers. BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY Lily Canter Wiltshire Gazette & Herald; Guy Collender The News, Portsmouth; Thomas
NCE success for 55 per cent of candidates
A 55 per cent pass rate in the Spring 2003 National Certificate Examination means that 156 candidates have qualified as journalists. A total of 286 candidtates sat the NCE in April at 16 centres across the UK. The candidates who
Picture perfect snappers are rewarded
Phil Cannings, from the Newbury Weekly News, has been named Fujifilm Photographer of the Year for Local Newspapers at this year’s Picture Editors’ Awards. The regional press man was one of 21 winners who collected awards from Tony Blair. The
Hot-shot photographers in the frame for awards
The nominees for this year’s Picture Editors’ Awards have been announced, with several regional press photographers in the running. Staff photographers from the York Evening Press, Liverpool Daily Post & Echo, Exeter Express & Echo, Edinburgh Evening News, Yorkshire Evening
Regional press editors join NCTJ board
Donald Martin, Alan Qualtrough and Brien Beharrell are appointed as directors
Family-owned news firm marks 140 years
Weekly News still published by family firm that launched it in 1867
Free weekly to launch in Newbury
New sister paper to Oxford Journal goes live in Berkshire
Former editor Laurence Cummins dies aged 60
Ex-Newbury Weekly News man had fought a long battle with cancer
Sienna pics warning for holidaying freelance By HoldtheFrontPage staff A former Newbury Weekly News reporter, now freelancing with his own PR firm, had a run-in with security guards when he trie
Reporter was threatened with arrest for taking photos of Brit actress on movie set
Island publisher buys free ad paper
Isle of Wight County Press Group boosts its portfolio