A daily newspaper deputy editor has been recruited to a new role overseeing journalism training at a North-East college.

Sue Calvert, left, has moved from being deputy editor of the Teesside Gazette to head up the revamped journalism course at Darlington College.

The new 18 week diploma will see students master digital media including on-line video production, social media, writing for modern platforms and interacting with readers.

Sue, herself a former student of the college’s journalism school, is to become programme leader on the new NCTJ-backed diploma.

She said:  “It’s a fantastic opportunity to take over the new course because the media is undergoing such an amazing transformation. People still have a voracious appetite for news but the medium is changing by the day.

“I was also latterly heavily involved in training in the newsroom at the Trinity Mirror daily and had started training to teach in my spare time.”

After passing the NCTJ course herself she worked as a reporter on the Hexham Courant and as a sub-editor on the Shields Gazette.

She joined the then Middlesbrough Evening Gazette as deputy chief sub editor, working her way up to assistant editor and latterly deputy editor.

Sue took the decision to leave the Gazette before the recent change in leadership at the title which saw Darren Thwaites move to the editorship of the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle.

Peter Montellier, a former Sunday Sun editor who had been executive editor at The Journal, has now been appointed ‘interim editor’ on Teesside.

Darlington College has a decades-long tradition of turning out some of the country’s most esteemed reporters, including John Sergeant and Kate Adie.

For more information on the NCTJ journalism diploma contact (01325) 503070.