News Writing
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- 1 day course
- Our Trainers are Authorised Professionals
- Live Online or Classroom-based
- Certificate of completion
- Maximum class size of 6 for scheduled courses
- Unlimited support after your course
- Courses at all levels: Introduction, Intermediate, Advanced and Masterclasses
Course Outline
- What is News?
- Researching News Stories
- Writing News Stories
- Deadline Management
- Interviewing for News
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Overview
Course Outline
What is News?
- What your readers want from their news
- The differences between hard news and soft stories
- Newspaper techniques for making stories grab their readers
- What makes news in your organisation or business
Researching News Stories
- How and where to source story ideas
- Identifying the key questions any news story must answer: who, what, when, where, why… and how?
- Making the most of your time and working with deadlines
- Tracking down sources and commentators
- Making your story stand up
Writing News Stories
- The traditional inverted news pyramid structure and why it works
- Alternative structures for soft news stories
- The right angle: getting the hook lead paragraph just right
- Developing the story
- Using quotes to support the story
Deadline Management
- Drafting stories as you go
- Keeping control of the different threads in more complex stories
- The skill of cutting words to sharpen your stories
Interviewing for News
- Using news stories to build a network of contacts
- Getting the most from news interviews in the shortest time
- Questions that will get the most useful answers
- Handling reluctant and tricky subjects
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- 5 reasons why writing skills are essential for every job – Learn how to be proud of your writing skills!
- Article from Grammarly – Steps to help you make dramatic improvements to the quality of your writing
- 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills – More than 50 useful and practical tools and resources that will help you to improve your writing skills
- Article from the Nielsen Norman Group – Another great article from the masters of web communication