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Journalism students in Poole, Dorset, will this week become the first in the UK to sit a new exam in online journalism set by the National Council for the Training Journalists .

The fast-track course students are sitting the revamped NCTJ pre-entry examinations with training organisation Up To Speed .

The training centre is one of ten NCTJ-accredited courses running an online journalism element as part of its pre-entry qualification this academic year.

From next year, the online module will become a mandatory requirement of the newspaper reporters NCTJ qualification.

The new qualification requires students to show they can adapt a traditional print story for the web and also compile a video news feature.

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Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver
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)

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