Stephen Lawrence's mother Baroness Lawrence and the Mail's Sue Ryan with former trainees Kamal Sultan, Kumail Jaffer and Courtney Bartlett.
I spent last month working with 16 Daily Mail trainees including two who were recruited as part of the Stephen Lawrence scholarship. One is now on placement at the Press Association and the other at the Irish Daily Mail in Dublin. They will return to the Mail newsroom in London early in the new year. There have been nine trainees who have passed through the scholarship - and most have full-time jobs on the newsdesk, as reporters or sports sub-editors.
The Mail is now, once again, inviting people to apply for the scholarship which aims to help students from under-represented groups break into journalism. The paper has long supported the family of Stephen, who was murdered at 18 in 1993. It began the scholarship in 2015, along with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, to help promote diversity in journalism. The successful candidates will be offered bespoke training according to their needs and experience. They will be given a two-year contract and paid a competitive salary while they train. If the training is successful they are offered staff jobs at the end.
If you are an aspiring journalist, with broad interests and a black, Asian or minority ethnic background, who wants to work for the country’s biggest national newspaper, the Mail would like to hear from you. To apply send a covering letter including a personal statement of no more than 500 words, your CV and three examples of your work to sue.ryan@dailymail.co.uk. Please specify in the header whether you are applying for a position on news or sport. The scholarships are advertised here.
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