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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 – [...]
Since I split my Twitter accounts six weeks ago, things have been a bit quiet here for a couple of reasons. Firstly, splitting the feeds has been a great help for talking to the people I’m writing for. I keep an eye on @edpmary at work, which has made it possible for me to have [...]
Changing newsrooms demand new skills, but exams are still demanding old ones. Are trainees stuck between a rock and a hard place?
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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