Our mission

We help aspiring and early career journalists access and navigate the profession by providing world-class mentoring and training

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Latest news

The Trust tackles the Christmas Challenge

We’re launching an ambitious festive campaign

Laura Gaynor gets on swimmingly with her seal film

2021 mentee Laura has taken the plunge

Photo of Ashni Lakhani against a starry background

Ashni Lakhani (2021) directs another film!

She’s exploring the concept of spending Black

Howard talking in front of a room, next to a projector screen

Howard Littler joins as Fellowship Manager

Howard will be overseeing our contact with schools and colleges.

Hedi heads for pastures new…

He’ll be reporting on the experiences of people of colour in South East England!

Fran Rankin joins Thomson Reuters Foundation

Fran makes her move for a new job!

Sophia Smith Galer up for award

She’s nominated at the British Journalism Awards!

Neelam releases climate crisis interviews

She’s been interviewing Indigenous activists around the time of COP26.

Our activities

Face to face mentoring for early career journalists

Our award-winning face to face mentoring scheme matches early career journalists and apprentice journalists with experienced mentors who do not work for the same organisation. We prioritise those applicants who enter the industry without privilege. The mentoring lasts for one year. We match around 35 journalists with mentors each year and will be inviting applications for the 2021 scheme from 21 September, 2020.

Sixth form online mentoring

We work with the leading online mentoring charity, Brightside, to provide online mentoring for around 40 students who are considering journalism as career. They are at sixth form colleges and schools in Cardiff, Cornwall, Nottingham and Sheffield, areas which have been identified by the Social Mobility Commission as places that are being left behind economically and hollowed out socially. Our mentors for the teenagers include mentees from our face to face mentoring scheme.

Masterclasses

The John Schofield Trust offers all its mentees the chance to hear from the best in the news business on a range of subjects. #JSTMasterclasses include very practical sessions, deconstructing stories or explaining how a producer or reporter covered a particular kind of story to the more topical debates about hot issues in the news industry.

RTS Young Talent of the Year Award

The John Schofield Trust set up the Royal Television Society award in 1996 in memory of John. The Young Talent Award is for the best work during the year by a journalist under 30. Many of the winners have gone on to become prominent figures in the news industry.