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Most campus courses are taught in BBC premises in central London, Salford and Wood Norton near Evesham in Worcestershire. [9] The College of Journalism provides all journalism training and development. It delivers editorial standards and legal training and core journalist craft skills as well as leading on international training.
In the late 1970s, the National Union of Journalists was pushing for a more structured approach to training for broadcast. After a series of meetings with universities, the BBC and the Independent Broadcasting Authority, the Joint Advisory Council for the Training of Radio Journalists was formed, chaired by the retired managing director of BBC World Service, Gerard Mansell.
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced ...
The school is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious schools for journalists and media professionals in the UK, [2] with The Times describing the school "as one of the leading centres for the teaching of journalism in Britain". [3] In 2010, the University won the Broadcast Journalism Training Council's award for general excellence. [4]
Among other alumni, BBC Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine took a presentation and production course aged 17 before going to university, Chris Skudder of Sky Sports studied journalism, and so did Lisa Aziz, who became one of the first Asian presenters on British television.
Courses are vocational, focusing on skills convergence and multimedia journalism. [ 2 ] The NCTJ is a charity for all media with a professional awarding body recognised by Ofqual, Qualification Wales and CCEA Northern Ireland, an accreditation board, Student Council, focus groups and forums, and the annual Journalism Skills Conference.
After graduation Gray began to work behind the scenes at the BBC, and soon after, entered a BBC Journalism course. On this course Gray researched for programmes such as Question Time , Public Eye and Newsroom South East . [ 4 ]
The school is also home to Cardiff University's Centre for Community Journalism (C4CJ) [7] [8] which developed the world's first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on community journalism. [9] The centre now also oversees the Independent Community News Network (ICNN), the UK's only representative body for community and hyperlocal publishers.