We regularly top the NCTJ results tables
Our courses are continually being recognised by the industry as the best in the business. We have regularly topped the results tables of the awarding body for news and sport, the NCTJ.
Trainees on our magazine journalism course have been honoured many times at the PPA's annual awards. As well as that, our distinguished alumni continue to be recognised by the industry.

PA graduate wins the PPA New Business Media Journalist Of The Year 2017 award
Thanks to the Press Association, this led me to RCNi Publishing and I was recently awarded the PPA New Business Media Journalist Of The Year 2017 and was also shortlisted for PPA New Talent Breakthrough 2017, an accolade I’m immensely proud of. Read more...

Newcastle Graduate Erinn Kerr Awarded The NCTJ Alumni of the Month
Former trainee Erinn Kerr named the NCTJ alumna of the month for December. Read more...

Paul Jones honoured for his outstanding contribution to journalism training
Paul Jones, head of diploma training at PA Training, was honoured with the Chairman’s Award at the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) annual awards ceremony on November 24. Read more...
Newcastle Graduate Awarded The NCTJ Alumni of the Month
Former trainee Rosa McMahon named the NCTJ alumna of the month for April. Read more...

PA judges Concrete as the winner of the SPA Best Publication Award 2016
Our lead tutor breaks down why she awarded the Best Publication Award to Concrete. Read more...

PA’s journalist ‘academy’ commemorates training chiefs
Press Association (PA), the UK’s leading multimedia news agency and digital content provider, has renamed its Newcastle training rooms after renowned journalism experts, Walter Greenwood and John Brownlee. Read more...

Newcastle Graduate Wins Journalist of the Month
Eastern Daily Press business editor Ben Woods wins journalist of the month from the NCTJ. Read more...

Exam award for PA trainee
Farmers Weekly business editor Charlie Taverner won an NCTJ award for public affairs reporting scoring the highest mark in the country for his NCTJ exam. Read more...

Trainee wins reporting award
Press Association trainee, Jack Hardy, has become the second recipient of the Nigel Whitefield Award for Excellence in Local Government Reporting awarded by Newcastle City Council. Jack received the award at the Newcastle training centre from the council’s Press Office manager Andrew McKegney, pictured with Jack, left. Read more...

PA trainee is student journalist of the year
Press Association Training, Newcastle is celebrating a great performance by one of its trainees. Douglas Faulkner-Gawlinksi, who recently completed a fast-track course in multimedia journalism at Press Association Training Newcastle, won this year’s student journalist of the year award. Read more...

Course is top of the league
Our course topped the NCTJ league tables in both 2011 and 2012 Read more...

Double success for former trainees
Double success for former trainees Read more...
Testimonial

"Without PA Training I wouldn't have my job. Employers value the name 'PA' and it certainly opens doors. The teachers are supportive and have incredible contacts. They encourage you to aim high and help you get into national newsrooms - on my course people ended up on training schemes at the BBC, the Mirror and the Daily Mail."
Catherine Wyatt // Trainee Journalist, Press Association

