Brighton Journalist Works offers training in journalism, including real work experience through placements at a busy daily newspaper and a recognized NCTJ qualification. The program emphasizes essential skills such as interviewing, understanding libel laws, multimedia journalism, and creating clear content. Successful graduates have become journalists in various fields, including newspapers, magazines, and broadcasting, demonstrating that a career in journalism is attainable.

1. Brighton’s leading media training company

2. Brighton Journalist Works – working journalists to teach journalism

3. The National Council for the Training of Journalists www.nctj.com

4. 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

5. Award-winning students

6. 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

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

8. Argus Community Correspondent

9. Portfolio of published work

10. Get in to print:

11. Work Experience

12. 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?

13. A Day in the Life Reporter comes up with ideas News Editor comes up with ideas News Editor assigns the story Reporter gets the story, writes Chief Sub assigns pages to subs Sub-editor cuts, corrects, re-writes, updates, headlines, pictures, captions, lays out on page Journalist may do all of these online

14. 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

15. Nicholas Tomalin: “ The only qualities for real success in journalism are rat like cunning, a plausible manner and a little literary ability.”

16. Piers Morgan – editor of Daily Mirror 2002 “ Journalism is full of lying, cheating, drunken, cocaine-sniffing, unethical people. It’s a wonderful profession.”

17. 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

18. 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?”

19. 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…….)

20. Ten essential things you need to get a job as a journalist: Proof you can interview Proof you know the laws of libel Proof you know where to go to get a story Proof you can write fast and accurately Proof you have spotless spelling Proof you are a multimedia journalist Work experience Cuttings Shorthand NCTJ Qualifications

21. 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

22. NCTJ Diploma in Journalism at JOURNALIST WORKS teaches you all that in just 14 weeks plus work experience

23. MA in Multimedia Journalism NCTJ Diploma Academic Study One academic year NEW NCTJ modules in Broadcast Journalism

24. Two non- NCTJ accredited Masters Journalism and Media Journalism and Documentary

25. 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

26. It worked for her – it could work for you Journalist –Sky Journalist – Surrey Mirror

27. It worked for him – it could work for you Journalist –Total Film Journalist – Q magazine

28. Brighton’s leading media training company

29. JOURNALIST WORKS how 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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