Saturday 18 June 2011

PRESS ASSOCIATION, LONDON

Of those students finishing the PA course in December 2012, Liv Lee and Hannah Ellis-Petersen were continuing their training with the Daily Mail, Nazma Chowdhury was returning to the BBC in Bristol and Amna Bagadi was offered a position with Al-Jazeera, working for both the English and Arabic channels. Patrick Daly was offered a job on the Plymouth Herald, Lucy Golding joined the Maidenhead Advertiser and Rachael Hook and Megan Tatum were hired by the Essex Chronicle series. Sophie Inge was offered a job with a new online project based in Stockholm, Oliver Haenlein joined a food magazine in Camden and Anna Verdon was offered a position with the women's magazine More. 

Sophie later returned to London to work for the Islington Gazette and in 2015 Patrick was appointed parliamentary correspondent for a trio of regional titles in Bristol, Grimsby and Hull.

Of those students finishing the PA course in May 2012, Annabel Howard was offered a job at the Maidenhead Advertiser before moving on to the Herald in Northampton and Georgie Keate was starting an internship with politics.co.uk. Steve Richardson gained a position with a sports production company. 

Of those students completing the course in December 2011, Alex Gregg was offered a reporting position with the Reading Chronicle, with Sarah Hayes starting work in Epping, Jo-Anne Rowney moving to the Beaconsfield Advertiser and Janine Rasiah to the Henley Standard. Miranda Knox was offered a features writing position with Caters news agency. In 2013 Janine won the national Esso award for her performance in the NCTJ final exams when she qualified as a senior reporter, while Miranda moved to Love It magazine, where she became acting features editor in 2014.

Emma Lake landed a job in Bury St Edmunds and Lauren Fruen with the Kent Messenger group in Whitstable. Anna Dubois and Jamie Rose were working shifts at PA, Nicki Slater at The Times Online and Dan Morgan with the Daily Mail. Amanda Nunn gained a position with the Ilford Recorder.


Students who successfully completed the PA NCTJ course in Victoria in June 2011:

Tallulah Berry, Hannah Bewley, Tanya Braun, Anne-Sophie Briant, Hannah Collisson, Paddy Cooper, Georgina Cotton, Lima Curtis, Jessica Earnshaw, James Fry, Mike Fryatt, Monica Gibson, Luke Heighton, Amy Jones, Sangita Ladwa, Joey Severn, John Simpson, Hayley Wheeler.

Students who successfully completed the course in December 2010:
Jenny Baker, Poppy Bradbury, Alex Diaz, James Drummond, Tom Embury-Dennis, Harriet Grecian, Sam Inkersole, Zab Mustefa, Jack McCormick, Virginia Newman, Ed Thornton, Kayleigh Williams, Holly Willis.

Of the February course, Tallulah was offered a features writing job with South West News in Bristol, while Georgina and Tanya joined the Essex Chronicle and Luke landed a job at The Sun. Monica joined Northcliffe Media's south-east network, based in Dorking, with Lima and Hannah Bewley taking up posts with Trinity Mirror titles in Hounslow and Uxbridge. Hannah Collisson went to the Hastings Observer, Amy Jones has been freelancing as a features writer for The Sun and Mike Fryar was appointed by Adfero to take over its new motoring department of seven websites. Joey Severn joined the Derby Evening Telegraph as a trainee reporter. 

After the December course, Jenny started work at the Cambridge Evening News, Alex at PA in London, James at the Essex Chronicle in Chelmsford and Virginia at Masons News Service in Cambridge. where she later moved on to become news editor. Sam was offered a job on Northcliffe's Sevenoaks Chronicle and Poppy on the Greenford and Northolt Gazette, while Kayleigh joined the Congleton Chronicle in Cheshire and Jack landed a job at the Northants Evening Telegraph. Zab has been working in the Palestinian territories, freelancing for AfP, and Harriet also worked in Palestine for a media organisation for a couple of months before returning to the UK as a production assistant with a film company. Tom has been working as a sports freelance for clients like Eurosport and Football365, while John began freelance reporting shifts at The Times after a work experience placement there.

Monday 6 June 2011

CITY COLLEGE, BRIGHTON - 2011




Sarah Stovell from the one-year course finishing in July was appointed content editor for the Friday Media Group in West Sussex. Claire Smyth from the fast-track class is joining the Western Gazette in Yeovil and Claire French has started work at the Surrey Advertiser as their Elmbridge reporter. Stuart Matson was appointed as a commercial features writer for the Bath Chronicle, while Max Anderton went on to become head of digital content at Men's Fitness magazine, a Dennis Publishing title. Jenni Davidson wrote for Brighton & Hove News, Culture 24 and the BBC before moving into local government communications for the social care department of a county council. She returned to Edinburgh in October 2015 to work for the current affairs magazine Holyrood, specialising in local government and housing issues.
Alice Neal and Danny Bell both scooped NCTJ excellence awards by recording the national highest scores of the year in the essential and court reporting exams.