Brighton’s leadingmedia training company

Brighton Journalist Works – working journalists to teach journalism

The National Council for the Training of Journalists

www.nctj.com

• Trains you in a busy daily newspaper• You get your own page on The Argus

website• Make a blog, use twitter, shoot and edit

video, learn shorthand• You get real work experience• You get taught by working journalists• You get an NCTJ Qualification

Award-winning students

Awards

• NCTJ Scoop of the Year – two years running

• NCTJ Public Affairs awards for top exam results in the country - two years running

• NCTJ News Journalist of the Year 2011

NCTJ News Journalist of the Year Scarlett Wrench – journalist at Men's Health magazine

Argus Community Correspondent

Portfolio of published work

Get in to print:

Work Experience

How to get a job in journalism

• You can be a journalist • Yes, lots of people want to be

journalists• But there are also lots of jobs in

journalism• So why shouldn’t it be you?

A Day in the LifeReporter comes up with ideasNews Editor comes up with ideasNews Editor assigns the storyReporter gets the story, writesChief Sub assigns pages to subsSub-editor cuts, corrects, re-writes, updates, headlines, pictures, captions, lays out on pageJournalist may do all of these online

You want a job that :

• Every day is different

Fulfilling and at the centre of events

Every day is different Creative

Working with words

• Creative

• Fulfilling and at the centre of events

• Working with words

Nicholas Tomalin:

“The only qualities for real success in journalism are rat like cunning, a

plausible manner and a little literary ability.”

Piers Morgan – editor of Daily Mirror 2002

• “Journalism is full of lying, cheating, drunken, cocaine-sniffing, unethical people. It’s a wonderful profession.”

Careers in Journalism – the truth

• Journalists are more likely to go running than drinking at lunchtime

• Journalism is about telling real-life stories and explaining the world

• Good journalists shine lights where the public cannot see

• Bring knowledge where there was ignorance

• Dabble in the stuff of other people’s lives

What editors want:

• “I look for an inquiring mind and someone who can come up with ideas. The worst kind of applicants are the ones that sit there and say they like writing. They might be able to write a beautiful 2,500 word essay on The Tempest but can they write four paragraphs on a charity race?”

I have interviewed dozens of editors and asked them the ten most important things potential

journalists need to get a job ( and luckily ten ways to make sure you can get these ten most important

things…….)

Ten essential things you need to get a job as a journalist:

1. Proof you can interview2. Proof you know the laws of libel 3. Proof you know where to go to get a story4. Proof you can write fast and accurately5. Proof you have spotless spelling6. Proof you are a multimedia journalist7. Work experience8. Cuttings9. Shorthand10.NCTJ Qualifications

Editors want someone who can:

• Come up with ideas• Explain them simply, quickly and

accurately• Explain why it is important to your

reader, listener or viewer• Using words, sound, pictures• Not enough to have a degree or A

levels, need a recognised journalism qualification and work experience

NCTJ Diploma in Journalism at JOURNALIST WORKS teaches you all that in just 14 weeks

plus work experience

MA in Multimedia Journalism

• NCTJ Diploma• Academic Study• One academic

year• NEW NCTJ

modules in Broadcast Journalism

Two non- NCTJ accredited Masters

• Journalism and Media

• Journalism and Documentary

BJW graduates’ careers in journalism•Reporters on newspapers•Reporters on magazines•Sub-editors on newspapers•Sub-editors on magazines•Online journalists•Press officers•Radio and TV journalists•Business to business magazine journalists•Communications managers for MPs and councils and corporations•Sports journalists•Reporters for celebrity news agencies•Freelance reporters or sub-editors•Set up your own magazine

It worked for her – it could work for you

Journalist –Sky Journalist – Surrey Mirror

It worked for him – it could work for you

Journalist –Total Film Journalist – Q magazine

Brighton’s leadingmedia training company

JOURNALIST WORKShow to apply

• Our courses give you everything you need to become a working journalist

• Talk to us, ask questions• Apply online:

www.journalistworks.co.uk• Apply online for MAs:

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/pg/applying/

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