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Free courses on Leadership skills and News Verification skills launched for 2024
A lack of meaningful progression in newsrooms is something that many members have raised as barriers in their career, and something the NUJ is committed to tackling across the industry. With that in mind we are particularly encouraging participation in these training opportunities from underrepresented groups in journalism. NUJ training for leadership in the…
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Calling all freelance members! Do you want your union to help you get work based on your professional skills and experience, whilst also providing training opportunities to develop or widen your skills?
We are pleased to announce exciting news of a pilot project funded by the STUC via the Scottish Government Fair Work initiative. We are looking for freelance members to help us test and give feedback on a new digital platform being developed exclusively for our members to match potential clients with freelances and to…
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Introduction to TV drama scriptwriting – Saturday 2 November 2019 – Glasgow
If you’ve been itching to write and have ideas that need to come to life, this one-day course is for you. Netflix will this year spend US $12 billion on original content, while here in the UK, the BBC spends more than £2.7 billion each year on content. A significant proportion goes toward creating hits…
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Autumn Training Opportunities 2019
AUTUMN TRAINING SCHEDULE 2019 Wednesday, 28 August Google workshop for Journalists (Glasgow) £10 booking fee A workshop being delivered by Abigail Edge and looking at: Google’s tools for journalists, covering advanced search techniques, Google Trends, verification and interactive multimedia Friday, 30 August TV News Production (Glasgow) Funded Only a handful of print journalists make the…
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Travel Writing – 24 May 2019 (Glasgow)
This course is more a nuts and bolts course rather than a ‘How to Write Travel Articles’ course. Hugh only takes on people who can write already as he teaches how to break into travel using skills journalists have already. Course costs £95 for NUJ members which includes a sandwich lunch and all materials. To…
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PR and Communications Training – 17 May 2019 (Glasgow)
The media industry remains in a state of constant flux. Traditional news media is changing and the way we consume news has been transformed thanks to social media. Accusations of ‘fake news’ and lack of trust abound. The importance of communicating your message to your audiences in the right way, at the right time and…
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Feature writing & pitching – 1 May 2019 (Glasgow)
Print journalism is said to be a dying industry and has been counted out repeatedly over the years. But it remains the main medium in which the world is examined in depth and where people are able to understand the context of events and not just hear the facts. Feature writing is the art form…
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Audio recording and editing for journalists – 30 April 2019 (Glasgow)
Podcast listener figures have almost doubled in five years, proving the demand for the spoken word. Some of the most popular podcasts take the form of an interview – something many journalists already have extensive experience of – with one key difference being the higher recording quality. This one-day course will offer journalists a jargon-free…
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Get trained by the NUJ in Scotland this Spring!
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING COURSES Need to update your skills or learn a new one? All full day courses run from 10am-5pm, at a rate of £95 per person for NUJ members and include materials and sandwich lunch. The half day members rate is £45 course only. Non-members day rate: £120 per person or £60 half…
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TV Interviewing skills for journalists – 11 December 2018 – Glasgow
We have a limited number of free places available on our TV Interviewing skills for journalists course running in Glasgow on 11 December. This course will help journalists to develop their existing journalistic skills for television broadcasting. Television interviewing techniques will be covered with the focus of the session on increasing the range of expertise.…
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