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journalism Essential vitamins for your journalism It’s that time of year again where I find myself doing a tour of various rooms and buildings introducing myself to new students. By a quirk of timetabling and course structures I
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Education Ignoring icebergs: The NCTJ and sinking ships. [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)[**UPDATE: [Paul has a great blog post summing up the issues.](http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/07/23/should-journalism-degrees-still-prepare-students-for-a-news-industry-that-doesnt-want-them/)** Paul Bradshaw has been doing a little ‘pre-blogging’ over at
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