Students are getting involved in the real journalism world
Twenty-four students from all over the country were introduced to the Annual Delegate meeting (ADM) program and National Union of Journalists (NUJ) system today.
The main goal of NUJ trainers Caroline Holmes and Chris Wheal was to acquaint students, who are involved into media industry, with how the union works.
Being a part of the NUJ and getting involved with the projects is not as easy as it may seem. A highly complicated structure confuses even experienced members. All of them wish to make the system easier, though, no one has agreed on a new model yet.
Five-sex hours of detailed explanations how NUJ works were diluted with a variety of exercises, which helped students to “break the ice”. The majority of young and enthusiastic students already have experience in different spheres of media industry: television, radio and print journalism.
They main goals of the students are to build a list of useful connections, get involved into the work of NUJ and, of course, to meet new people.
One of the challenges was already waiting for them next day – report the ADM conference (blogs and twitters) and interview experienced journalist from the United Kingdom.
The hard day ended after midnight – after great, but slowly served dinner and a nice chat with people, who are they going to be for the next few days.
