Partners & Supporters

News Associates

News Associates is officially the UK’s number one NCTJ journalism school. They offer full-time and part-time news and sports journalism courses in London and remotely for postgraduates with a passion for journalism.

They also run monthly free journalism workshops. Find out more about them on their website.

Journo.com

Journo.com helps you to get your stories out on time and with new perspectives. Simply file a request and you’ll be connected with thousands of vetted experts who are ready to reply within hours, not days.

The software is also designed to filter out AI-written responses and those which are unrelated to your query. Try it out here.

Tickaroo

Tickaroo builds intuitive live coverage software, from desktop to mobile and AI, we develop our live content software with your present and future publishing needs in mind.

Cover news, sports, and events, engage with audiences and monetize your live content with our easy-to-use technology. More than 350 newsrooms rely on Tickaroo to break down the barrier between journalists and their audiences.

Financial Times

Across the FT Group, our people are united by a mission to deliver world-class information, news and services to our global audiences. We’re a digital-first organisation made up of journalists, technologists, product managers, event planners, strategists, commercial and finance experts, marketing and communications specialists — and much more. Our strength is in our employees.

There is no single type of person whom we hire at the FT. Our strength is in our employees, from all different backgrounds and walks of life, united by a passion for delivering compelling, smart journalism fueled by cutting-edge technology.

Wherever you are in the world, on any given day you are likely to see, hear, or read journalism from graduates of City’s Department of Journalism.

Each year, hundreds of people from diverse backgrounds apply to us who want the best education to enable them to get a great job in the media.

Here at City St George’s, we provide an intense and highly focused education to help you acquire the up-to-date journalism skills needed to enter your chosen area of the media.

PA Media Academy is a leading centre for journalism, communications, media and content training. We are the sister company to PA Media (formerly the Press Association), the national news agency for the UK and Ireland and have a long heritage in training — you’ll find PA-trained journalists in leading newsrooms all over the world.

We teach what we know best: news and news-based communications, writing and editing, and digital storytelling across multiple platforms. In an age of AI, these skills have never mattered more.

Women in Journalism

Our founder, Jem Collins, was taken aback to be announced the winner of the 2018 Georgina Henry Award for Digital Innovation at the Press Awards.

Coming with £3,000 of funding, this allowed Jem to leave her full-time job and focus on Journo Resources, and we’re incredibly grateful for their continued support.

You can read more about the win here.

The Printing Charity

Our director and founder, Jem Collins, was awarded a 2019 Print Futures Award, complete with £1,300 worth of funding to allow us to buy our own MacBook. It sounds small, but was the start of something much bigger.

Presented at the House of Lords in July, we’re incredibly grateful to The Printing Charity’s support to own our own equipment for the first time, allowing us to move towards working full-time.

Solutions Journalism Network

In 2019/20, we were selected as part of the inaugural LEDE Solutions Journalism Fellowship. We received US$2,500 in funding to build a ‘choose-your-own-adventure‘ game to increase awareness of solutions journalism.

Despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic, our team managed to train some 5,000 people with our targeted programme.

Steady 

In 2021, Journo Resources was awarded a €5,000 grant by Steady, a leading provider of membership services.

This cash injection was used to boost our membership offering and develop a sustainable revenue stream for the organisation.

LinkedIn

In 2022, our director, Jem Collins, was accepted onto the LinkedIn Creator Accelerator Programme.

The programme offered US$8,000 in financial funding as well as bespoke support to grow our presence on the platform.

In 2022, we were awarded one of five places on the prestigious Deutsche Bank Award for Creative Entrepreneurs Programme.

Along with £10,000 in funding, we also took part in a 12-month business accelerator programme, extended for a further 12 months.

ABSW

The Association of British Science Writers supports science and technology writers at all stages of their careers. In 2022, it provided Journo Resources with £5,000 to run a fellowship for entry-to-mid-level science writers to help them upskill.

Funding was awarded as part of a competitive Dragon’s Den process.

University of Lancashire, Media Innovation Studio

In 2023, the Media Innovation Studio at the University of Lancashire awarded our director, Jem Collins, a full scholarship for the 2024 cohort of the PGCert in Journalism Innovation and Leadership, with a focus on growing the business and setting a strategy for the next decade.

Jem is expected to finish her MA in 2026.