Course Description
This combines both our subbing and layout courses. It is a practical workshop which takes delegates through every aspect of the subbing craft - from text editing through to complex page layout.
Who Should Attend?
- Production journalists at all levels on newspapers and magazines.
Course Length
- Four days
Course Outline
- Understand the role of the modern production journalist
- Learn effective copy editing and tight-writing
- Style
- The use of language, grammar and punctuation
- Sharp intro's and solid story structure
- Accuracy and potential pitfalls
- Glossary of terms
- Use of pictures and writing captions
- An introduction to typography
- Practical editing exercises
- Headline writing
- Newspaper and magazine layout
- Designing for different markets
- Titlepieces and mastheads
- Use of colour
- Column widths and grids
- Using the software (Quark, InDesign, Photoshop)
- Exercises in creating real pages
"Every year since 2003 the Daily Mail has sent between five and nine grads and postgrads to PA for intensive training in sub-editing as part of a year-long course. I have been involved on the Mail's behalf from the start and can testify that the results have been spectacular. We take only the best and that's what Peter Sands and Co turn out. Most frequent quote: 'We learned more in six weeks than we learned in a year on a journalism postgrad course.'"
(David Manson, Daily Mail)
Course Length
- Four days
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