A subsidiary of the academy, the BBC College of Journalism, functions as a free e-learning, online course series for all licence-fee payers.
Its origins lie in a post-Hutton inquiry report commissioned by former BBC editor Ron Neil and Pricewaterhouse Coopers in 2004[1] which recommended a number of broad reforms of the BBC which included the establishment of a journalistic academy headed by an academic principal.
[2][3] The BBC College of Journalism was opened as an e-learning course series in June 2005,[4] with Kevin Marsh as Executive Editor.
[5] The academy, which joined together the curricula of training in Journalism, Production, Leadership and Technology, was opened for students on 14 December 2009,[6] offering free masterclasses online to licence-fee payers and rival news media organisations.
[8] Most campus courses are taught in BBC premises in central London, Salford and Wood Norton near Evesham in Worcestershire.