Journalism: Introduction
Writing & Journalism Courses
This course is an excellent introduction to different types of writing for anyone who wants to fast track a career into journalism - whether you plan to be writing for magazines or newspapers, working in PR or contributing to house journals. This is a practical, results driven course covering news reporting, researching a story, feature writing, interview techniques, sub-editing and essential legal and privacy issues.
Course Description
Research
• The internet as a research tool
• Traditional sources
• What makes news and how to find it
Interviewing
• Face-to-face interviews
• Telephone interviews
• Interview techniques
• The difficult interview
• Extracting information
• Spotting hidden agendas
• The press conference
News reporting
• News writing
• Working to media deadlines
• News desk organisation
• Writing press releases
Feature writing
• Understanding your audience
• Rewriting for different audiences
• Developing a feature
• Writing excellent introductions
• Selling your feature
Sub-editing
• On-screen subbing
• Writing headlines
• Effective use of quotes
Writing for a digital audience
• The difference between print and online reading habits
• Writing for readers who skim
• Making your copy searchable
Ethics and legal issues
• Privacy issues
Questions and answers
If you have any questions, or you would like to find out more about this training course - please don't hesitate to contact us. We're here to help.
Tel: 0845 676 2250
Email: Sales
Courses provided by partners Media Training.
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