"The fast pace of the course does a lot to prepare you for what your working day as a journalist will be like. Expect the unexpected!."

Katie Clark, JW graduate, Chief Reporter, Bournemouth Echo

• Based at a daily paper: We are the only journalism training centre based in the offices of a newspaper. more
  
  
• Unique course: We are the only place in the country training journalists to be sub-editors.  We are the only place offering the fast track NCTJ Certificate in Journalism (sub-editing). more
  
  
• Fast track: We offer the fastest fast track NCTJ Course in the country - 10 weeks in the classroom plus work experience and exams. It's quality training in a time frame that delivers the goods as quickly and yet as soundly as possible.
  
  
• Work experience: We guarantee all students at least a week on The Argus or The Leader newspapers PLUS a week on The Grocer, the leading national business to business magazine.  In addition,  our students have an exclusive chance to apply for a paid three-month internship on the leading F1 magazine, Red Bulletin.  We also give CV and cover letter advice, the key to getting started in journalism.
  
  
• Traditional skills of journalism: We continue to provide all the essential elements of traditional journalism training, such as story gathering, news writing, media law and government but instead of shorthand, our students learn sub-editing.
  
  
• Web-based journalism: is integrated in to our programme of courses, so students learn how to write and sub-edit in newspapers, magazines and online.
  
  
• Portfolio-building: Reporters and editors from The Argus speak to our students regularly and give them real-life assignments - so trainees get the chance to write stories, which may get published. Students get the chance to leave with a portfolio of work including page leads, book reviews, features and picture stories printed in The Argus, helping them getting started in journalism.
  
  
• Real journalists to train real journalists: Our courses are run by a team of  talented  journalists and trainers.  Our students love the real world experiences passed on by working journalists instead of dusty old professors who have never been in a newsroom. We welcome people who are good with words to come on our courses and train to be great journalists in a friendly professional environment. more
  
  
• Exam results: Our latest exam results are among the best in the UK. Our sub-editing results are unprecedented and our students' portfolio work has scored the full 100%. Read on to find out more about our exam achievements. more
  
  
• Student satisfaction: Student feedback from our courses is overwhelmingly positive and enthusiastic. According to a recent Journalist Works graduate, "Training in the same building as a working newspaper is the best way to a career in journalism". Read more of what our students have to say about us on the testimonials page. more
  
  
• Job success: Five of the first graduates of our trainee sub-editors course walked straight into jobs on The Argus newspaper, others have gone on to work for The Bournemouth Daily Echo and Surrey Mirror, and are getting started in journalism on business magazines, publishiing compnies and web sites. more
  
  
• Industry approval: Journalist Works has been applauded by the newspaper industry for filling a skills gap. We are "a company of experienced journalists and trainers providing courses the industry needs," says Michael Beard, Editor, The Argus.
  
  
• NCTJ support: We were the first journalism training centre in the country to run the pioneering fast track NCTJ Certificate in Journalism (sub-editing) course. "The course has been designed specifically to address a particular industry need and has already won strong practical support from a major newspaper publishing group," says the NCTJ. more

A place on one of our courses will be always stimulating, sometimes challenging, and could be transforming.

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