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| Duration: | One Day | |||||||||||||||
| Public Course: | £325 + VAT | |||||||||||||||
| Individual tuition: | £495 + VAT | |||||||||||||||
| Course Times: | 10am - 4.30pm | |||||||||||||||
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News Writing: Advanced
This course is for those with some experience of news writing who wish to improve their researching and writing skills, work on ways to come up with new treatments for news stories and brush up on media law. The course is ideal for those who are writing news but have not had any formal training in reporting. You will learn how to make your stories sharper, how to work faster and with greater accuracy and how to improve your news-gathering skills. The course includes practical exercises in writing, interviewing, handling press conferences and rewriting.
Who should attend
Those who have attended the Introduction to News Writing course at Media Training or have an equivalent working knowledge of news reporting.
Key Topics
• Common news writing problem areas
• Analysing your own strengths
• Working with stories
• Finding news stories
• Handling tough interviews
• Writing against the clock
• Covering a specialist area
Course Content
| Introduction • Common news writing problem areas • How to assess your own weaknesses and strengths • Turning your weaknesses into strengths Working with stories • How to isolate the essential facts that make a complex story news worthy • Researching complex stories • Developing your writing and story structuring skills Finding news stories • How to build up a network of brilliant contacts who give you stories • How to get the stories somebody doesn’t want you to get • Finding off-diary stories • Developing a real nose for news • Verifying information Handling tough interviews • Dealing with a reluctant interviewee • How to deal with going “off the record” • Avoiding “no comment” Writing against the clock • Almost all news reporting is carried out against a deadline and, as you advance as a news reporter, those deadlines are likely to get tighter. You’ll learn some essential tips and tricks to get complex stories written on time and how to anticipate events and plan ahead Covering a specialist area The next step for many reporters is to cover a specialist area - from industry or science to finance or politics. How to develop these specialist skills and contacts in a key area. |