We offer two industry-leading foundation courses in journalism each year at our purpose-built training centre.

Our Newcastle centre is the only course in the UK to be run in a real newspaper office offering trainees the unique opportunity to train in a real-world environment.

In the last three years Press Association Training has become one of the biggest journalism training organisations in the UK. We have acquired two of the country’s leading journalism training establishments, responsible for many of today’s leading national journalists, and merged them into the premier training organisation for journalists. In 2004 we took over the Editorial Centre in Hastings and in 2006 we acquired the former Trinity Mirror training centre at the Newcastle Chronicle and Journal.

The 16-week foundation course for aspiring journalists is now run at Newcastle where trainees are given a patch to work in and the best stories get published in the Evening Chronicle and Journal newspapers.

The course offers a vocational training that is second to none in its quality. No-one who has paid their own way on the course over the past 10 years has failed to be offered a job in newspapers.

The 16-week course is used by The Times, The Sunday Times, the Mirror Group and many regional newspaper groups and leads to internationally recognised journalism qualifications.

A limited number of places are available to delegates wanting to pay their own way through the courses that begin in January and late August.

For further information or an application form please contact Sheilagh Banks on 0191 201 6043 or Lorna Chaproniere on 01424 858123 or download one from our website.

The foundation course is one element of the comprehensive range of training courses that Press Association Training offers.

WHO ARE WE?

Press Association Training, incorporating the Editorial Centre, is the one-stop training provider for newspapers, magazines, broadcasters and any agency or company involved in the media or communication business.

We have more than 40 consultants and trainers who are all specialists in their field… and all have reached senior positions in the publishing industry. PA Training’s director is Peter Sands, formerly editor of the Great Daily of the North, The Northern Echo, and the head of editorial training is Tony Johnston, former head of editorial staff development at Trinity Mirror.

Press Association Training is the training provider for many national newspapers including The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Mirror and for most regional newspaper groups.