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| Duration: | One Day | |||
| Public Course: | £N/A + VAT | |||
| Individual tuition: | £495 + VAT | |||
| Course Times: | 10am - 4.30pm | |||
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Feature Editing: Introduction
This one day course covers all the journalistic aspects of the feature editor’s job, as well as management functions and people skills. It covers setting and maintaining subbing standards, ensuring work is done to deadline, motivating a team and managing a budget.
This course is available as individual tuition or a private company course only.
Who should attend
Anyone who has recently been promoted to the role of features editor or wishes to prepare for a future promotion.
Anyone who has gaps in their formal training - either as journalists or as managers.
Key Topics
Your coverage
Understanding the feature editor’s role
Working with your team
The diary and forward planning
Winning a realistic budget for your ideas
Commissioning and giving a detailed brief
The feature editor’s role in editing copy
Course Content
| Your coverage • How to plan the features coverage for a magazine or a newspaper. • Improving balance • Identifying weak areas of coverage and correcting them • Turning a story round for your publication • How to make sure you have a ready flow of story ideas presented to you and that you can source plenty for yourself Understanding the feature editor’s role on your publication and working with your team • What is expected of you as a features editor and how realistic those expectations are • Assessing your skills as leader and manager • How to manage your own time effectively • How to ensure you have a clear understanding of the skills, abilities, problems and concerns of each of your features team • How to ensure that they trust and value you as their manager • Getting the most from your team The diary and forward planning • How to make sure you know what story-generating diary events are coming up • How to plan ahead and have original features ready for diary events • Controlling the diary and choosing the right feature writers. Winning a realistic budget for your ideas Commissioning and giving a detailed brief • How to make sure you have outlined the story you are looking for • How to handle the situation when you don’t get the story you were hoping for The feature editor’s role in editing copy • When to edit a piece of unsatisfactory copy yourself and when to hand it back to the writer • Keeping ahead of rivals • Keeping feature writers keen and creative • The importance of contacts Questions and answers |