Journalism Skills: News Writing

Course Code: JO-NW      Days: 2
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22/01/09 London (Central) (NW1) £ 680
14/02/09 London (Central) (NW1) £ 680
08/03/09 London (Central) (NW1) £ 680
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Course Overview

What news is, identifying stories and writing them for different readerships. The workshop involves plenty of practical work with individual attention and assessment.

Audience

Newcomers to reporting and those with only a very basic knowledge. Also invaluable for those in public relations and others who want to improve their writing skills.

Course Outline

  • Finding news; especially off-diary stories
  • Researching and planning
  • Story structure, with particular emphasis on intros
  • The pyramid, and other techniques
  • Interviewing for a news story
  • Writing news stories from reports and documents
  • Covering press conferences
  • Giving life to dull press releases.


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