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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 [...]
It’s a little quiet round these parts at the moment, thanks to a couple of work projects, a couple of extracurricular projects and these pesky impending exams. So here’s a quick look at a few things I’m working on. A more regular blogging schedule will resume after Friday’s NCEs. While I’m at work: City of [...]
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 – [...]
Mary Hamilton is an award-winning journalist, constant learner, asipring coder, casual hardcore gamer and enthusiastic amateur data wrangler. You can contact her via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or email her at mary at maryhamilton dot co dot uk.
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