Up To Speed student Liz Wainwright is planning to use the skills she has honed on her NCTJ Photojournalism course in a new role with a charity.
Liz will use her web, writing, photography and video skills in her new job with Community Health Global Network.
CHGN provides links, support and training for community-based health programmes all over the world.
Liz has just completed the NCTJ Fast-Track in Photojournalism at Up To Speed and passed exams in News Writing, Media Law, General Photographic Knowledge and Photographic Practice.
In her second term at Up To Speed, which is based at the Bournemouth Daily Echo, Liz spent time with Rockhopper Television, a documentary production company, and with viral video producer Adelia TV.
Liz has an MSc in International Development and she has previously worked for a charity in Zambia and as deputy editor of an environment magazine.
The next NCTJ Photojournalism Fast-Track course at Up To Speed starts in September, 2012.
An NCTJ Diploma in Sports Journalism has helped Dom Bryant to find work at talkSPORT.
Dom has been doing regular freelance shifts after impressing the sports desk during a work placement.
Dom joined Up To Speed in January, 2011, and took our fast-track NCTJ course in Sports Journalism based at the Bournemouth Daily Echo.
He passed with flying colours including the 100wpm shorthand exam and now regularly writes pieces about premiership football.
The decision to abandon an offer to study politics at university and take an NCTJ Diploma course has allowed Dom to take the fast-track to his dream job.
He has worked in both news and sports since passing his diploma.
Dom said: ”I will never forget Up To Speed as being where I truly knew I had chosen the right career.”
Up To Speed NCTJ photojournalism student Nadine Al Koudsi had a little time on her hands when she was waiting for a firework display to start as part of the celebrations for Poole’s new Twin Sails Bridge.
So, she put the time to good use and produced a short stop motion clip to mark the moment.
Tech writer Stephen Ashby has been twittering with excitement today as he heads to the big Apple launch in London.
Stephen is covering the event for iCreate magazine amid rumours that the iPad3 is set to be launched.
Stephen joined Imagine Publishing just over a year ago after completing the Magazine Journalism fast-track course at Up To Speed, which is based in the Daily Echo building in Bournemouth.
A student who started a professional journalism course just a month after he turned 18, has come top of his class.
A Grades: Francis Scott
Francis Scott, 18, from Romsey in Hampshire, was the first in his group to pass 100wpm shorthand and he also earned As in two Media Law papers, a public affairs exam and a video journalism unit.
Francis joined graduates and school-leavers on the course at Up To Speed journalism in Bournemouth a few months after he left Hampshire Collegiate School. He has a place to study politics and history at Exeter University in October.
During the course at Up To Speed he has completed work placements at the Southern Daily Echo in Southampton, at Meridian Television and with his local newspaper, the Romsey Advertiser. Cuttings from his placements will be included in an assessed portfolio, the final piece of coursework, which will make Francis a fully qualified journalist.
You can see the video report Francis made for his NCTJ course below.
Up To Speed photojournalism student Nadine Al Koudsi went down to the woods one night this week and came back with intriguing shots.
The trees at Moors Valley were illuminated as part of an art installation.
Nadine has passed all her NCTJ exams and is working on her portfolio.
You can see what she found in the forest here
Up To Speed sports journalism student Joel Holt has earned himself some back-page leads covering a non-league team’s historic FA Cup run. Joel travelled to Grimsby for Salisbury City’s second round tie and saw the club win to reach the FA Cup Third Round for the first time in its history. This meant another trip for Joel to report from the press box at Bramall Lane, home of League One side Sheffield United on January 7. This was where Salisbury’s FA campaign ended. Joel was commissioned to cover the matches for the Salisbury Journal. Joel’s pieces were carried across several inside pages of the sports section as well as the back page of the paper.
