News Associates – NCTJ Diploma in Multimedia Journalism
News Associates was also recognised for top-ranked fast-track courses in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
We also won Innovation of the Year at the NCTJ Awards for Excellence in 2020 and 2022.
In 2022, News Associates was recognised for our trainees’ multimedia coverage of the death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in the first few weeks of their course – producing 142 articles in 11 days. Judges praised our coverage as ‘a highly innovative project, which turned breaking news into a fast turnaround learning environment’.
News Associates also won the innovation of the year award in its inaugural year in 2020 for adapting teaching styles and exercises for remote learning, keeping up morale for trainees and running a series of free online workshops open to everyone.
The NCTJ stopped releasing league tables after 2021, but that hasn’t stopped our trainees and tutors excelling in what they do.
At the 2023 NCTJ Awards for Excellence, Eve Bennett (now Sky News), who studied on our fast-track course, won student of the year – awarded to the student who achieves the highest marks in their NCTJ in Diploma in Journalism exams in the 2022/23 academic year.
The same day, News Associates graduates also won the top prizes in sports journalism, data journalism, features journalism and the best student project. See more here: https://newsassociates.co.uk/five-news-associates-grads-win-top-prizes-nctj-awards-for-excellence/
Four of the 12 highest-performing journalists in the NCTJ Diploma in Journalism exams in the 2022/23 academic year trained at News Associates.
Eve Bennett (Sky News), Freya Gascoigne (Sky News), Luke Power (MailOnline) and Abbie Ingham (freelance) each achieved the best results in court reporting, shorthand, sports journalism and journalism for a digital audience respectively. See more here: https://newsassociates.co.uk/news-associates-trainees-nctj-diploma-journalism-awards/
We run a series of NCTJ-accredited journalism courses with intakes across the year.
* Full-time fast-track (22 weeks, Monday-Friday, one day a week on work placement)
* Part-time (40 weeks, all day in person on Saturdays, remote on Wednesday evenings and optional remote shorthand on Monday evenings, work placement details here)
* Remote part-time (18 months, every Tuesday and every other Thursday evening, work placement details here)
* Sports journalism (29 weeks, Monday-Friday, one day a week on work placement in second half of course, plus one full week in February)
In the 2019-20 academic year, 1,138 people enrolled to sit their NCTJ Diploma in Journalism exams across 59 accredited courses at 35 approved centres, and 222 of them achieved gold standard (A-C grades in all modules and 100wpm shorthand, if taken) – of which 103 trained with us. Meaning 46% of all gold-standard journalists that year trained at News Associates.
Yes, we’re proud of our exam results but’s it’s our unrivalled job record and alumni network we’re most proud of. Walk into the office of any major newspaper or broadcaster and you’ll see a friendly News Associates face. And it didn’t take them long to get there. Our graduates walk into jobs at Sky News, Reuters, VICE, the BBC and more.
Our tried-and-tested formula means we are the go-to course for many national news organisations. The Times, The Sunday Times, the Financial Times and The Telegraph are just some of the big names who choose us to train their journalists.
To start your application, click here: http://newsassociates.co.uk/apply-now/
To attend a free journalism workshop, click here: http://newsassociates.co.uk/free-workshop/
For more information contact our training team directly on [email protected] or call 0203 026 3781.