Could 2010 Be The Year You Show You’ve Got The Talent To Be The Next Piers Morgan?
Piers Morgan, NCTJ Trained Journalist
By Tom Hill, Course Director, Up To Speed Journalism
Six years after parting company with the Daily Mirror, he has written two best-selling books about his days in national newspapers and he divides his on-screen time between appearing as a celebrity panellist on both Britain’s Got Talent and its counterpart in the USA, and fronting programmes that allow him to be 21st Century cross between Alan Whicker and Michael Parkinson.
Piers Morgan, 44, began his career as a trainee journalist in weekly newspapers in South London after taking his Preliminary Exams in Media Law, News Writing, Public Affairs and Shorthand on a one-year course at Harlow College in Essex. The same NCTJ qualifications can now be taken with Up To Speed, which is based in its own training centre off the newsroom at the Daily Echo in Bournemouth.
His big break came with a job on the Sun where the editor was Kelvin MacKenzie, another former NCTJ trainee. Under Mackenzie, Piers was given the Bizarre column. Using this position he was to reinvent the world of celebrity journalism from 1989 to 1994 when he left to become Editor of the News of the World. A year later he moved onto the Daily Mirror.
Ellie Jones, Up To Speed Celebrity Journalism
Ellie Jones, 22, who started the Up To Speed course a year ago, managed to make her own mark in celebrity journalism while she was with us. Several of her interviews with celebrities including Will Young were published in Listed magazine during her time on the course.
A selection day for Up To Speed’s next course takes place on January 6th. The course runs from February 22nd to the end of July.
If you would like to apply, all you have to do is click Piers Morgan.
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