NUJ Training Wales News Blog
Training for my niche area of journalism
Q&A with freelance journalist, Jamie Carter (TravGear.com) Jamie is a freelance travel & technology journalist based in Cardiff. Although he started his journalistic career in Cardiff in 1997, he had to move to London in order to further his career. However, having made lots of contacts in the UK and around the world, he was […]
The Georgina Henry/ Women in Journalism award for Innovation
This award is named after Georgina Henry in recognition of her history of finding and nurturing new talent and is presented annually. The prize of £4000 will be used to fund either a project or pay for living expenses during work experience at two or more major national news organisations, arranged by the organisers. Applicants […]
John McCarthy on Surviving Captivity
John McCarthy, the journalist and former hostage, gave the first Nick Lewis Memorial Lecture at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, on Tuesday, 18 November. By Anna Wynn Roberts John McCarthy’s face was so familiar to me when I saw him speak at Cardiff University this week that I felt I knew him. Pictures of him […]
Writing is good for your health – it’s official
By Lyn Alderson You’re a professional journalist – or aspiring to be one. You’ve probably been writing since childhood, or at least since sixth form. If you’re anything like me, you loved expressive writing at school – the chance to put your thoughts, feelings and opinions down, to create an intriguing story or let off […]
Play to your Strengths
By Frances Dredge, Purple Pear Communications and Training IF YOU’RE thinking about improving your life in some way, whether it’s to do with furthering your career or beefing up your social life, you might find a few ‘positive psychology’ tips useful. Rather than poring over weaknesses and ways to correct them, this approach to self-development […]
Mentoring and Coaching: Just the skills I needed
Think about it. How often have you been talking to somebody and while you are meant to be in listening mode you are mentally rehearsing what you want to say next? … asks David Nicholson after completing the ILM Mentoring and Coaching qualification. To mentor or not to mentor? That was the question I asked […]
Going freelance: A leap of faith?
By Christopher Evans As I stepped off the train and made the admittedly very short walk to the Maldron Hotel, a flurry of thoughts were popping in and out of my head. I was nervous, perhaps unjustly so for a thirty-one year old man, about the impending How to be a Freelance course that I […]
News UK launches journalism academy; Cardiff one of 5 cities earmarked for ‘recruitment’
Guto Harri first ‘leaked’ this information during his speech to the Royal Television Society Wales at the Pierhead in Cardiff in November 2013. The following blog was written by Roy Greenslade for Guardian Media on 29 January 2014: News UK has launched the News Academy, an initiative aimed at finding and training teenagers who wish […]
Why being freelance IS having a ‘proper job’
By Rebecca Lees (now a full-time freelance journalist) The email from NUJ Training Wales bearing details of a ‘How to Freelance’ workshop arrived with perfect timing, just as I was contemplating handing in my notice. I’d already been freelancing for seven years, but for the last three had combined this with a part-time staff […]
Six things all journalists should know about the 2013 Defamation Act
This blog was written by Press Gazette editor, Dominic Ponsford, and appeared in the Press Gazette online, 2nd January 2014 The Defamation Act 2013 is now in force and creates big changes to the legal climate for all journalists working in England and Wales. Thankfully nearly all these changes are for the better. It is […]