What is essential journalism and ethics?
The essential journalism module encompasses the core skills you need as a reporter, from understanding what makes good news stories and how to find them, to interviewing skills and how to tell stories to different audiences.
The module covers how to write breaking news stories based on limited information from multiple sources. The skills you will learn in this module are transferable to any form of journalism you pursue whether that’s sport, features, entertainment or lifestyle.
Essential journalism ethics and regulation is a separate module which is taught alongside essential journalism. In this module, we’ll teach you about what constitutes good journalistic practice, as well as the codes which editors and reporters should abide by.
Journalists are expected to work to high ethical standards and are held accountable when they do not, and you will carry your learnings from this module throughout your course and career as a journalist.
Essential journalism and essential ethics and regulation are compulsory modules on all our NCTJ-accredited courses.
How do we teach these modules?
We use practical exercises in each module to get you writing to exam standards and prepare for you for the demands of the first day in a newsroom.
Using a series of scenarios based on real-life stories, we get you writing news stories and determining how you would report on a story in an ethical way. On each story, we provide individual feedback to help you hone your writing.
We prepare you to work in a newsroom and our training remains on the cutting edge.
Our team of tutors are involved with the NCTJ in exam setting, marking and moderating – as well as helping to shape the changes required to keep it contemporary.
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See more about how you are assessed here.