Courses

• Proofreading and editing
• • Proofreading and editing course
  • Sub editing course
  • Copy editing course
  • Proofreading course - basic
• Web writing and editing
• • Web editing course
  • Web writing course
  • Website SEO course
• Writing
• • Business writing course
  • Better writing course
  • Copywriting course
  • Travel writing course
  • Education writing course
• PR & marketing
• • PR course
• Blogging
• • Celebrity blogging course
  • Better blogging course
  • Fashion blogging course
  • Food blogging course
  • Music blogging course
  • Sports blogging course
• NCTJ Diploma in Journalism
• • NCTJ Diploma: Broadcast journalism
  • NCTJ Diploma: Exam coaching
  • NCTJ Diploma: Magazine journalism
  • NCTJ Diploma: Magazine production
  • NCTJ Diploma: Newspaper journalism
  • NCTJ Diploma: Newspaper production
  • NCTJ Diploma: Shorthand
  • NCTJ Diploma: Sports journalism
• Journalism
• • Digital journalism course
  • Business journalism course
  • Celebrity journalism course
  • Citizen journalism course
  • Environmental journalism course
  • Fashion journalism course
  • Financial journalism course
  • Food journalism course
  • Freelance journalism course
  • Health journalism course
  • Investigative journalism course
  • Motoring journalism course
  • Music journalism course
  • News reporting course
  • Freelance photojournalism course
  • Political journalism course
  • Radio journalism course
  • Science journalism course
  • Sports journalism course
  • Video journalism course
  • Womens magazines journalism course
• Short courses in journalism
• • Interviewing skills
  • Multi-media writing style
  • Better newsgathering
  • Better feature writing
  • Ethical reporting
  • Speed reading course
  • Data journalism
  • Using the Freedom of Information Act
  • Investigative skills
  • Death knocks
  • Covering overseas events
  • Effective web searches
  • Video news reporting
  • Writing fillers
  • Education writing
  • Better reviews
  • Covering disasters and tragedies
  • Human interest writing
  • Photographers and the police
  • Picture desk skills
  • Stake-outs
  • Covering a funeral
  • Effective headline writing
  • Better news writing
  • Basic subbing
  • Copywriting for advertising staff
  • NCTJ subbing exam
  • NCTJ production diploma
  • NCTJ magazine diploma
  • NCTJ sports journalism diploma
  • NCTJ newspaper diploma
  • NCTJ broadcasting diploma
  • Womens magazine features
  • Exam workshops: Newswriting and Reporting
  • Exam workshops: Law - General
  • Exam workshops: Law - Court reporting
• Short courses in media law
• • Challenging courts
  • Contempt of court
  • Copyright
  • Creating a legally safe office
  • Criminal court reporting
  • Data Protection Act made simple
  • Ethics
  • Freedom of Information Act
  • How to spot a libel
  • Injunctions and super-injunctions
  • Keeping journalism legal
  • Key laws for photographers
  • Law for desk heads / duty editors
  • Live blogging safely
  • Privacy and confidence
  • Law for picture editors
  • Media law basics
  • Media law for the web
  • Seven key danger areas
  • Qualified privilege
  • Safety tips for trainees / interns
  • Sexual offences restrictions
  • Reporting children and young people
  • Reporting inquests
  • Using photos safely
  • Writing safe comment articles
• Teeline shorthand
• • Teeline shorthand course
• Retraining
• • Retraining programme
  • Journalist re-training
  • Forces resettlement programme
• Mentor programme
• • Mentor programme
  • Become a life coach
• NCTJ certificate in journalism
• • Photojournalism course
  • Press photography course

Prospectus

• Our tutors
• • Cleland Thom
  • Jo Wiltshire
  • Chris Charles
  • Derek Booth
  • David Porter
  • Philip Hilton
  • Andy Carter
• Accreditation
• About us
• Alumni
• Our clients
• How our courses work
• CTJT diploma
• CTJT professional diploma
• Studying abroad
• Compare us
• Payment options
• Media clients

Other services

• Web writing training and consultancy
• Media law consultancy and training
• In-house workshops
• NCE refresher for journalists
• SEO service

Products

• Database
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• Your own website - for just 295!

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Media law consultancy and training

 

Since 2003, Cleland Thom has:

• trained more than 2,000 journalists and PRs in media law, including heads of comms, editors and producers
• delivered more than 400 law training sessions to public authorities, corporations, newspapers, magazines, websites, TV and radio stations
• worked with every UK regional newspaper publisher
• answered more than 5,000 pre-publication legal queries 
• has never made a wrong call or missed a deadline
• framed more than 100 challenges to court reporting restrictions
• been legal blogger for the Press Gazette

Copy checking

Unsure about that story? Cleland can give you simple, expert legal advice - immediately.

That means seven days a week, 24 hours a day. All those occasions when you can't get hold of a solicitor. And quicker and cheaper when you can!

Just phone and your query will be dealt within 30 minutes. Cleland will explain exactly what's safe with regards to the law and the PCC Code.

He'll re-write copy, draft letters to complainants and guide you through the photo maze. And it won't cost you a fortune.

You can either pay by the call, or take out a retainer. Please email us

Training

Cleland delivers in-house training workshops anywhere in the UK.

Sessions are:

• lively
• practical
• interesting
• up-to-date
• relevant
• interactive

They are tailored for your staff. Specialist sessions can be run for different departments - eg, web, sport, desk heads, editors etc.

Subjects can include:

• update and / or refresher
• running a safe department
• photos and images
• privacy
• reporting crime
• issues with reporting children
• court reporting
• Freedom of Information Act
• Data Protection Act
• social media
• journalism ethics