By Alice Reeves NCTJ Student 2008-2009 City College Brighton and Hove provides training for the internationally recognised NCTJ Journalism course(Magazine and News). City College has been awarded the status of Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) to reflect the exceptional high standards of training for these courses. http://www.ccb.ac.uk/public/college-life/journalism

1. The NCTJ Course at City College Brighton & Hove June 2010

3. Work Experience (Portfolio Evidence)

4. Law (Court Reporting & General Reporting)

5. Public Affairs (Local & Central Government)

7. Work Experience (local or national)

8. Guest Speakers & Workshops

9. Written Exercises (deadline practice)

10. Practice Exam Papers

12. Reporting restrictions during and after trials/court cases

13. Visit to Brighton Magistrates’ Court

14. General reporting

15. Contempt of Court

16. Defamation

17. Privacy

18. Copyright

20. Structure of Local Authorities

21. Provision of services

22. Finance

23. Local Elections

24. Central Government

25. UK government & European Union

26. NHS, Social Security, Regulatory Bodies, Basic Economics etc…

28. Goal = 100wpm

29. Practise every day

31. Interview published in a The Sunday Times supplement

32. Work experience on The Argus (completed my portfolio)

33. Two features published in national LGBT magazine 3Sixty

34. Six months as Journalist & Author Damian Barr’s PA

35. Set up political news website (The Vibe: www.the-vibe.co.uk) for young people, written by young people

37. Journalism.co.uk

38. Latest 7

39. XYZ

40. 3SIXTY and One80news

41. Source

42. Eco-storm (Video journalism)

43. Juice 107.2 FM (radio)

44. Radio Reverb (community radio)

46. Over 600 digital media companies in and around Brighton

47. Wired Sussex (www.wiredsussex.com) advertised over 500 vacancies last year

48. Games studios and games development

49. Web companies in need of copywriters

50. TV Producers (Ricochet, who produce ‘Supernanny’ are based in Brighton)

51. Brighton is leading location for the development of 3DTV

52. Share of E-learning market down here is equal to London – very similar skills to journalism

54. Journalism.co.uk - www.journalism.co.uk

55. The Press Gazette - www.pressgazette.co.uk

56. Journalisted – www.journalisted.com

57. Wired Sussex – www.wiredsussex.com