{"id":79372,"date":"2015-08-24T10:33:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T10:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=79372"},"modified":"2015-08-24T10:40:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T10:40:37","slug":"news-uk-hosts-news-academy-summer-school-for-20-aspiring-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/news-uk-hosts-news-academy-summer-school-for-20-aspiring-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"News UK hosts News Academy Summer School for 20 aspiring journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The News Academy \u2013 News UK\u2019s flagship programme for aspiring journalists &#8211; kick starts\u00a0its second annual<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/academy.news.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Summer School<\/a><\/span>, a free week-long intensive training programme that is on from\u00a023-28 August\u00a0for students aged 16 to 18 from across UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty talented students have been selected from hundreds of applicants for the opportunity to spend a week at the London headquarters of <em>The Times<\/em>, <em>The Sunday Times<\/em> and <em>The Sun<\/em> and learn the tricks of the trade from the best in the business.<\/p>\n<p>As well as attending master classes with News UK\u2019s top talent &#8211; from The Sun\u2019s Head of Showbiz Dan Wootton to Editorial Director of The Sunday Times Eleanor Mills &#8211; the students will be busy sourcing scoops from Premier League football matches, political interviews and celebrity\u00a0photo shoots\u00a0to put together their very own 16-page newspaper under the Editor of the Irish Sun\u00a0Paul Clarkson\u00a0and News UK CEO Mike Darcey.\u00a0The experience is completely free, with accommodation, food and evening entertainment included.<\/p>\n<p>As a finale to the week, the students will see the\u00a0fruits\u00a0of their labour being printed at News UK\u2019s Broxbourne print site to be able to head home with a copy hot off the press.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The News Academy Summer School is our way of ensuring that our brightest young people get the encouragement and inspiration they need to become the next generation of indefatigable newsmakers,<i>&#8216;\u00a0<\/i>said\u00a0Guto Harri, director of communications for News UK.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/122958997\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/122958997\">Anne Fitzsimmons Summer School 2014<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user23574197\">News Academy<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em>Featured Image sourced from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_newsacademy\" target=\"_blank\">@the_newsacademy<\/a> Twitter account<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The News Academy \u2013 News UK\u2019s flagship programme for aspiring journalists &#8211; kick starts\u00a0its second annual Summer School, a free week-long intensive training programme that is on from\u00a023-28 August\u00a0for students aged 16 to 18 from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":79377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3725,3729],"tags":[4019,4583,7163,7164,2883],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}