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Our media training services

	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. This year she 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 and build.There are also training courses in state-of-the-art publishing software ... Quark Xpress, Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Final Cut Pro.
	Training online is a new venture the company is embarking on. This will be launched later in the year. A sample of our training materials can be seen in our publications ... 20 Steps to Building a Website. This work is currently being updated.

McCreadie media services.

London based ... working worldwide.

Publishing online and offline.

Media and IT consultancy.

Training for journalists worldwide

Web woman's alternative tour

Julie McCreadie, the company principal (standing on the right), has trained journalists in Ghana, Pakistan, Albania, Montenegro, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Sierra Leone, Cameroon (pictured below) and Bangladesh for the Thomson Foundation.

She has also worked in Berlin for the International Institute for Journalism (IIJ) training students from developing countries.

Her work covers all areas of journalism training with a particular emphasis on online journalism and reporting on human rights issues.

Just click around web woman's spider belly button for the alternative tour.

McCreadie Media Studio, First Floor Studio, 57B Retford Street, London N1 6NQ
T: +44 (0)20 7739 9543 E: julie@mccreadie.com