Radio News and Production

The NBS Radio News course is BJTC-accredited. BJTC (Broadcast Journalism Training Council) is the kite-mark of broadcast journalism training. Many employers regard it as essential.

Our NBS radio news graduates have moved into full-time careers at a wide range of excellent organisations, including the BBC and commercial radio groups.

The NBS radio news course covers a wide range of skills but it focuses on four key areas – the skills to which radio employers attach the most importance. These are news presentation and voice quality, radio news writing, broadcast law, the kit and software. In addition, we teach a range of other relevant skills. The course is demanding, intensive and practical.

News students form a news team which, within a week, starts to provide the news and sport content for the NBS in-house station, Red FM.

Outside their news shifts, NBS radio news students also complete a weekly written test on broadcast law, They are also required to produce feature and other content which they've been assigned.

At the end of their time in the NBS newsroom, they go on a formal work attachment at a fully operational, licensed radio station.