Hundreds of students studied at Thomson Foundation's training centre in Cardiff
Students travelled from around the globe to study in the Welsh capital.
The centre developed close links with Cardiff University, a leading centre for media research.
The journalists now form an elite alumni many running top media organisations.
Hundreds of journalists from around the globe studied in the Welsh capital at the Thomson Foundation’s Editorial Study Centre. The foundation’s headquarters were based in the city and it developed close links with University College, now Cardiff University, a leading centre for media research. The foundation now runs courses at its London centre after it returned to the UK capital in 2012.
Cardiff, UK
1963
Media training
It was friendlier than a big anonymous city; an easier place to get around and make friends, with fewer distractions and the right atmosphere for intensive study of what made newspapers tick”
