Press Association adds video module to training course
PA introduces video journalism to its foundation course
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The Press Association (PA) has introduced video training to the syllabus of its foundation course in journalism .
The addition of 35 hours of video journalism training is the final stage in a multimedia renovation of the NCTJ-accredited course, which PA acquired from Trinity Mirror in January 2006.
From January next year students on the course will have the opportunity to take lessons in interviewing in video, shooting a sequence and film editing, as part of an optional week of video training at the end of the current 16-week programme.
The move to incorporate the new video element follows the introduction of an online journalism module and online journalism exams.
The success of PA's standalone video training courses, which have been taken by almost 100 print and photojournalists in the last two years, also contributed to the decision, according to a press release from the group.
"The strength of the course has always been that we teach trainees in a very practical way how to get the best stories," said Paul Jones, head of foundation course training at PA.
"These skills transfer very easily across media and it is with this in mind that we have added video journalism to our course."
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Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
