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I discovered on Wednesday that I’ve passed my NCE exams – and did particularly well on the News Practice exam, winning the Ted Bottomley award. (I love the name. Love it. Probably too much.) The examiner [pdf] was very, very nice about my paper, saying: A textbook example of how to tackle the Newspaper Practice [...]
I’m on my second day of NCE training today in Wrexham. Tomorrow we’ll be doing a mock NCE day, taking mock News Report, Newspaper Practice and News Interview exams. This is in the lead up to taking my NCE exams – senior exams for working journalists, basically. I’ve already had my portfolio scrutinised, and – [...]
Alison Gow recently wrote an excellent post suggesting that newsrooms should get rid of the dummy – the page plan that tells print new teams what space we need to fill in the paper and where. She said: Everywhere I’ve worked it’s been called something different – The Book, The Plan, The Dummy, the Flatplan [...]
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Today the BBC reported that video adverts are going to appear in a print magazine.
Changing newsrooms demand new skills, but exams are still demanding old ones. Are trainees stuck between a rock and a hard place?
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