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Press Association to launch London training course

The Press Association is to launch a new London-based version of its flagship training course based in Newcastle.

The agency’s Newcastle course is now in its 41st year and has provided the launch pad for many journalists’ careers.

Now it is hoping to replicate that success with a new multimedia foundation course based at its headquarters in Vauxhall Bridge Road.

The 17-week course will include all the elements of the National Council for the Training of Journalists’ syllabus but with multimedia journalism practices embedded into all the learning.

Tony Johnston, head of Press Association Training, said: “Our Newcastle course is in its 41st year and has provided the starting point for the careers of many of the UK’s top journalists. It’s also top of the NCTJ results tables.

“We are now launching an almost identical programme in London which we hope will open up a fantastic training opportunity for potential journalists who want to study in central London.”

Paul Jones, Press Association’s head of foundation training, who is leading the course, said: “The Newcastle centre delivers vocational learning which is then immediately put to use in a real newsroom.

“With the Press Association news operation just one floor above our training centre, we can recreate this culture at our London centre.”

Delegates will study shorthand to 100 words per minute and complete the NCTJ Portfolio, News Writing, Public Affairs and Law exams as part of the course.

There will be two courses each year starting in February and August, with the inaugural course due to start on 31 August 2010.

Comments

NCTJ (17/02/2010 14:38:49)
Press Association Training’s claim to be top of the NCTJ results tables is incorrect.
The University of Ulster’s MA in Journalism was top of the results tables for 2008/9. It was the best performing NCTJ-accredited course.
The Press Association Training course in Newcastle was top of the results table for NCTJ-accredited courses delivered by commercial providers.

b.davis (03/03/2010 16:36:59)
I’ve been looking into this as I would like to join a newspaper journalism course, it seems to me that they have been the best for the foundation course the past couple of years running by NCTJ??… can someone tell me which one is correct?
http://www.nctj.com/results/2009/results_frame.php?title=Newspaper%20Reporting&starturl=Results%20Tables/NJ%20A-Z%20list.html