Introduction to Journalism
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Course Outline
- Introduction to journalism
- News reporting
- Feature reporting
- Interviewing
- Sub-editing
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Overview
The second part of the course focuses on the fundamentals of news reporting, teaching you how to write and structure concise, engaging news reports. You'll then dive into feature writing, learning how to craft long-format content that captures and holds readers' attention. Key elements of storytelling, such as developing a compelling narrative, will also be covered.
Finally, you'll master interviewing techniques, learning how to prepare for and conduct interviews across different contexts. We'll also explore the art of extracting and presenting key information in a well-rounded piece. The course concludes with sub-editing skills, ensuring that your writing is clear, focused and relevant to today's digital audience.
Course Outline
Introduction to journalism
- How journalism has changed over time
- Research tools at your disposal
- Sources available to a journalist
- How to find stories and think and operate as a journalist
News reporting
- The difference between news reporting and other types of journalism
- How to write, structure and present information as a concise and easy to follow news report
- Feature writing: learn to write engaging, long format content to put across your opinion in an intelligent way
- How to develop a story and keep your audience hooked
- Working to deadlines and news desk organisation
Feature reporting
- Creating ideas that will work
- Understanding the different styles of long form writing, including comment writing, reviewing, interviews, news background pieces, travel and lifestyle
- Understanding how to use humour, emotion, facts and opinions
Interviewing
- How to prepare an interview for different scenarios
- The art of interviewing and collating/extracting key information to present a well-rounded piece
Sub-editing
- How to write captivating SEO headlines
- Editing copy and headlines to fit the space available
- How to edit content: when to rewrite, when to cut and when to leave it alone
- Removing waffle and expressing yourself clearly and consistently
- Identifying an angle
- Developing a style guide that will enhance your brand
- Grammar, spelling and punctuation
- Delivering information your digital audience needs
Writing for a digital audience
- The difference between print and online
- Writing for readers who are short of time
- Writing to make your copy searchable
- Working with rich content eg. images, animations and video clips
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