Course Description
A course for senior reporters who want to sharpen their skills. The ever-changing media landscape is changing the demands on the modern reporter. This high-powered course deals with a whole range of skills, and looks at everything from alternative sources of stories to professional forward planning techniques and story development. It will also devote time to looking at how reporters can use the web both for news gathering and research.
Who Should Attend?
Senior reporters who want to take their skills to the next level.
Course Outline
- The changing media landscape and how the delivery of news is changing
- The role of the reporter in the multi-media age
- Story development – getting the most out of every story
- Missed opportunities and how to avoid them
- Forward planning – tips and techniques
- Organising yourself and your diary
- Off-diary reporting and making yourself invaluable to the newsdesk
- Reporting and the web
- Writing for the web
- Using social media to find and generate stories
The modern reporter needs a much broader range of skills than simply following instructions from the newsdesk. This course will refresh your skills and introduce you to new ones that will turn you into a great all-rounder.
Testimonial
“I really enjoyed this course. The trainer was engaging and clearly brought experience as a journalist and from other fields to this course.”
Irish Times journalist
Course Length
- Two days
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