by sportsbeat | May 8, 2021 | Blog
‘Post-truth’ was Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year and Collins Dictionary chose ‘fake news’ for 2017. In 2021, the rise of misinformation is more threatening than ever, and journalists are at the forefront of the battle against it. Fact-checking has always...
by sportsbeat | Apr 1, 2021 | Blog
The School of Journalism is officially the number one NCTJ-accredited degree in the UK. Our undergraduate multimedia journalism programme is the top NCTJ course of any kind in the country. And it’s the sixth year in a row a News Associates course has topped the league...
by sportsbeat | Mar 26, 2021 | Blog
We spoke with Richard Amofa, The Athletic staff editor and News Associates alumnus, about how he got into sports journalism and what his advice would be for young people wanting to break into the industry. Richard’s route into sports journalism Why did you want to...
by sportsbeat | Mar 18, 2021 | Blog
Having graduated last year from The School of Journalism with a first-class degree and gold-standard NCTJ diploma, Olivia Burke shares her experience of landing her first journalism job. What is your job? I’m a world news reporter at News UK. My first...
by sportsbeat | Mar 5, 2021 | Blog
Every year we host a free journalism conference called JournoFest exclusively for our News Associates and School of Journalism trainees and special guests – and this year is no different. JournoFest 2021 is taking place on Saturday March 6 (10am-4:30pm) on Zoom – with...
