Journalism: Introduction
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Journalism: Introduction
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Course Description:
This two day course is the ideal preparation for anyone who wants to fast track 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.
This course includes the following modules:
Introduction
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 age…
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Course Description:
This two day course is the ideal preparation for anyone who wants to fast track 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.
This course includes the following modules:
Introduction
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
Ethics and legal issues
- Privacy issues
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