Senior figures from across the regional press will be among speakers at a journalism conference next month.

Manchester Evening News editor Paul Horrocks, Lancashire Evening Post editor Simon Reynolds and Glasgow Evening Times editor Donald Martin are all addressing the Journalism Skills event – run by the National Council for the Training of Journalists.

The conference will look at the issues associated with educating and training journalists and those attending will have the opportunity to discuss these issues with editors from all sectors of the media.

Delegates will also take in a tour of the convergent newsroom at the Manchester Evening News.

Other speakers at the conference include the BBC’s Andy Griffee and Cerys Griffiths and former newspaper journalist Paul Newman, who is now head of communications at MediacityUK.

Central to the debate will be the results of the recent survey of converging journalism skills.

More than 200 editors from all media sectors and 50 accredited universities, colleges and commercial organisations completed the online questionnaire.

The conference takes place on December 4 and 5 at The Lowry, in Salford, and is open to everyone involved in journalism recruitment, education and training.

For more information and to book a place download the booking form.

Comments

regionalhack (03/11/2008 19:48:48)
What? No hard worked ordinary journos who actually have to do all this video and multimedia stuff? Just editors who talk about it . . .
Does any newspaper group give on-going training about video and multimedia, or like mine was it just a case of quick training days, then get on with it?

Trained trainer (14/11/2008 02:00:26)
Having read the brochure and the comment by regionalhack, I am concerned that there appear to be no full-time, active trained trainers and journalism teachers taking part.
Training isn’t about a journalist showing someone necessary skills while trying to do their normal job as well. Newspapers never seem, in my view, to want to commit time and money to proper training. There is still an element of “this is how I learnt, so it’s how you’ll learn, my lad”.
I am appalled at the level of ignorance and bad practice I find in journalists who come on my courses.
Also many newsroom journalists of my experence are not temperamentally equipped to teach.