BJTC

I will be calling a meeting in a few days for the selection of students who said they would take up our offer of help to secure a BBC placement.

In the meantime if this applies to you, would you please start thinking about choosing where and when you want to go. A good time to go might be after the exams, or later in the summer. Don't choose during the Easter holidays as many students want to go then. Your preferred option may be a regional newsroom near your home. 

You will need to provide the BBC three choices and two alternative dates. 

For third year students:

On offer: BBC work placements organised through the BJTC.

You need to apply through the website below:

https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/fe/tpl_bbc03.asp?newms=jj&id=35096

Follow the website’s instructions carefully. Most placements are in BBC local radio across the UK. A few are in television and radio news in London.

You might share more actual work with a news team in a local radio station than if you end up with national TV or radio.
  

On Friday 22 May, first year students from the Centre for Journalism produced a live 15-minute news bulletin for a visiting Broadcast Journalism Training Council panel. The bulletin went out at 1pm.

Today's accreditation visit by the BJTC was a huge success. Panel members were greatly impressed by the degree, the facilities and, above all, by the undergraduates. So, a very big thank you to all of you. Ian, Richard, Sarah, Suzanne and I were delighted by the radio bulletin. You displayed great professionalism and commitment to produce such excellence. We are intensely proud of you. You should be proud of yourselves. If any of you are planning to attend the boat race tomorrow I'll see you there.     

The Centre for Journalism today welcomes an accreditation panel from the Broadcast Journalism Training Council. Steve Harris from the BJTC, Robin Elias, managing editor of ITV News, and Nick Myers, editorial training manager of ITV News, will spend the day talking to students and staff at the centre, examining the facilities and looking at students' work.

Alan McGuinness and Kelsey Williams (in strict alphabetical order) will be joint editors of next week's radio news bulletin that will help to showcase the centre's work for the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.

They will be deciding on other key roles for the team, which we've every confidence will work together to produce a professional and compelling radio news programme.

And of course if anything goes wrong, the pair will be brought back into the boardroom and one of them will be fired by Sir Alan.

If you look in the module notes, you will find the above document. It explains everything you need to know about the BJTC. And you do need to know it. For example, you are working to their set of acceptable broadcast standards. 

And if you study the Law, Regulation and Ethics section you will find it invaluable for the essay you are doing for me.