The Journalism Diversity Fund is a

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organisation set up by industry leaders in order to support the training of journalists from ethnically and socially diverse backgrounds and those without the financial means to fund NCTJ-accredited courses.

History

It is an industry fund and was set up with the help of the

Newspaper Licensing Agency NLA media access (often shortened to the NLA) is the collecting society for UK newspapers, a privately owned limited company. It undertakes collective rights management on behalf of its members and licenses companies, such as press cuttings agenci ...

in association with publishing companies including

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, Guardian News and Media Group, News International and

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. At the launch of the fund, at the

Society of Editors The Society of Editors is an industry body for around 400 UK national and regional media editors, representatives and organisations. The society has an elected president, chair and board of directors. The society was formed by a merger of the Guil ...

’ conference in 2005, the NLA pledged to support the ongoing development and financing of the fund. The fund is managed and administered on behalf of the industry by the

National Council for the Training of Journalists The National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) was founded in 1951 as organisation to oversee the training of journalists for the newspaper industry in the United Kingdom and is now playing a role in the wider media. It is a self-ap ...

(NCTJ). The NCTJ is recognised inside and outside the media industry as the primary body for developing qualified journalists.

Supporters

The fund was set up with a donation of £100,000 from the Newspaper Licensing Agency and is supported by leading publishing companies. The National Newspapers’ Diversity Forum – made up of the '' Daily Mail'', the ''

Daily Mirror The ''Daily Mirror'' is a British national daily tabloid. Founded in 1903, it is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was simply ''The Mirror''. It had an average daily print c ...

'', the '' Daily Telegraph'', ''

The Financial Times The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, England, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Nik ...

'', the '' Guardian'', ''

The Independent ''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publish ...

'', '' The Sun'' and ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...

''; and the Society of Editors – also support the fund.

References

{{reflist Journalism organizations in Europe