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How to break into journalism

Entry points to journalism

About the course

Course syllabus

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Getting a job in journalism

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How to break into journalism

Well, you can trust to luck. It works for some.

You can start at the bottom of the heap by applying to your local paper when you leave school. It's a solid but slow start

You can go to university and get a degree in media studies or an MA in journalism. It's an academic route which doesn't always have the impressing power you might hope.

You can undertake a specialist course. It will give you the skills editors want from you.

You can undertake our short ten-week specialist course. It will give you the skills editors want from you without wasting time.

If what you are after is the best advice on how to break into journalism, then this site is for you. Not only will we give you details of our first-rate short course run by some of the most experienced journalism trainers in the UK, but also we'll answer any questions you might have.

We'll even tell you to try a rival course if we honestly feel you would benefit more from that than ours. (We're hoping not to have to do that very often, but do it we will if that is the honest way to proceed.)

To know more, please explore this website and if, having read what we've put here for you, you still want to know more, please email us.