June 15th, 2010 by Mary Hamilton
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 – [...]
June 9th, 2010 by Mary Hamilton
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 [...]