Patrice John
"The training gave me all the skills I needed to be a real reporter."
Patrice John is now a Senior Reporter at the Birmingham Mail.
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- Why this course?
Why choose our course?
Quite simply, because it offers you the best chance of achieving your ambition of being a news reporter.
Our training centre was established in 1969 and since then, we have been the starting point for the careers of many of the UK’s leading journalists.
We pack a huge amount into the 17-week course and it is not for the faint-hearted. We cover all the areas of knowledge required by a multi-media reporter today, including:
- News awareness
- News values
- Writing skills
- Interviewing
- Shorthand to 100 words per minute
- Law
- Government/Public Affairs
- Reporting online
- Video journalism
- Understanding the business of news
All the training takes place in our fantastic, fully-equipped training centre in the offices of Trinity Mirror‘s NCJ Media and our trainers are among the best in the business at developing talented, new reporters.