It is one of the highlights of my life to receive such a prestigious award as the 2022 National Teaching Fellowship.
It gives my colleagues and I in Ulster University and National Council for the Training of Journalists strong endorsement for the mammoth transformation that I have been leading to update journalism education. This has been to ensure that quality, fair and impartial journalism not only survives but thrives in the rapidly changing digital landscape.
It encourages us too in the work we do to encourage inclusive access to the profession, including raising £500,000 annually for the NCTJ Journalism Diversity Fund. To ensure too that, internationally, journalists have the right safety and resilience training to do their job and stop the downward slide of global press freedom. The kudos that the award carries will hopefully allow us to secure more support for these important initiatives.
