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New Media Training Centre for Wellington
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
A new media education centre will be established at Whitireia Community Polytechnic’s campus in Wellington. It will include one of New Zealand’s biggest journalism schools and programmes in radio, publishing and creative writing.
(via Whitireia Polytechnic) The Whitireia journalism and publishing schools will be joined at the Wellington city campus by the recently acquired NZ Radio Training School and the polytech’s creative writing school to become the Whitireia NZ Media Training Centre early next year.
Recording studios, production suites and other media-related facilities will now be added to the campus.
As part of the development, Whitireia Journalism School will launch a third new programme at the campus, the Diploma in Radio Journalism, the only course of its kind in New Zealand.
It joins the new Certificate in Multimedia Journalism launched earlier this year and the National Diploma in Journalism.
The Diploma in Publishing is the only one of its kind in New Zealand and half of those who graduated from the programme last Friday were offered jobs by publishers around the country before they finished their training.
The publishing programme, too, will be expanding in 2011, offering for the first time a Book Editing Masterclass and an annual Te Reo Maori Scholarship.
“We have also boosted our training in e-books and digital publishing,” says programme leader Rachel Lawson. “[It’s] a new focus that fits well with the environment in the new media school.”
The centre will have multimedia – web, print, radio and video – facilities to enable students to emerge ready to face any news media-related job.
The new radio diploma, which will start on April 4, 2011, will initially take 15 students, who will spend a semester at the school before going out to the radio industry to work in newsrooms.
Next year, the school plans to develop a range of short courses in media photography, video reporting for the web, blogging and web editing.
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