Two award-winning former Financial Times journalists will this week open the first of a new kind of training centre for business communicators, offering intensive residential training in southern France.

Ross Tieman, the FT's former UK Company News Editor, and Jenny Luesby, a former FT industrial correspondent and author of the writers' hand-book, The Word on Business, have spent two years developing courses which they claim are "tailored to the needs of today's information professionals".

Visiting lecturers for the 2001 season include the Internet training pioneer and founder of the WWW Virtual Library: Journalism, John Makulowich, and the investigative reporter best known for her work at the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail, Sonia Purnell.

Courses vary in length and cost between 200 and 750 British pounds. More information at www.cayssials.com).

Also see the National Union of Journalists site at www.gn.apc.org/media/nuj.html for upcoming online journalism courses.

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