A daily reporter who has won a senior journalism exam award has said his job has changed amid newsroom cuts, but he still thinks reporting “is one of the best jobs in the world”.

Fifty-seven per cent of the 28 trainees who took the National Qualification in Journalism exams last month passed all four sections: media law and practice, news report, news interview and e-logbook.

This was the last round of NQJ exams before the National Council for the Training of Journalists, which runs the senior qualification, relaunches the assessment in July.