This week the NCTJ celebrated the success of our Journalism Diversity Fund with bursary recipients, alumni and mentors at a Summer Reception hosted by Dow Jones and News UK.

The fund has supported more than 550 people since it was established in 2005 and there have been 328 mentorships since they were introduced in 2018. It provides mentoring and financial support to aspiring journalists from a diverse range of backgrounds.

Joanne Forbes, NCTJ Chief Executive, said: “The JDF is about the media industry and like-minded charities getting together to take collective action that makes a difference alongside their own important initiatives and interventions.”

At the event, the student and early-career journalists in attendance received career insights from a panel of journalists, including News UK’s head of creative diversity Mark Hudson, Dow Jones’ Financial News Editor-in-Chief Shruti Tripathi Chopra, Times Radio Multimedia Reporter Jo Crawford and Wall Street Journal Reporter Yusuf Khan.

Mark said: “The journalism diversity fund has created some incredible talent over the last 19 years. We used this as an opportunity to talk to them about careers with us and have a pool of talented candidates ready and waiting.”