The company specialises in training journalists and other media professionals in both the UK and abroad covering all traditional journalism skills as well as journalism online, new media & communications, media management and IT.

Company principal, Julie McCreadie has been involved with the media business for over 30 years and been responsible for training at all levels from the Managing Director down across a range of different media disciplines. She believes that we never stop learning during our working lives so that we can teach up-to-date skills and practises. She recently completed an online MSc degree in IT (Information Technology) with Liverpool University as a mature student to bring her own IT skills up to modern standards.

Training is based on sharing professional experiences and adjusting with flexibility to the particular needs of the trainee.

Based in the London office, McCreadie Training and Assessment Centre (UK) is registered as a verified Centre with OCR (Centre number 01768) for the delivery of NVQs in journalism skills and training trainers.

Training includes customised media management workshops in good business practices, project planning, time management, team building, sales techniques, journalism writing and media design skills.

Training workshops for journalists and media managers cover reporting and writing skills, interviewing techniques, research and specialist reporting (particularly on issues around human rights and the rights of women) as well as law for publication (libel, copyright etc), layout, design, management techniques, journalism online and website design & build.There are also training courses in state-of-the-art publishing software ... Quark Xpress, Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Final Cut Pro to name a few.

Training online is a new venture the company is about to embark on. A sample of our training materials can be seen in our publication ... 20 Steps to Building a Website. This work is currently being updated and then we will launch our online training scheme.