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Advanced News Writing E-learning Course

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Description

  • Type

    Training

  • Methodology

    Online

  • Class hours

    3h

You will learn: How to organise your news delivery channels. How to manage complex news stories and divergent sources. The secrets of prioritising news content. How to efficiently handle news flow for the 24/7 audience. How to write the most attention grabbing introductions. The structural techniques behind the best news stories. How to manage one-off stories and extended news coverage. The essential writing tricks and tips to streamline your writing &and much more. Suitable for: Suitable for: Writers with some experience of producing news content, who now really want to stretch their skills and learn all the secrets of the seasoned news professionals.

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Richard Sharpe

Richard Sharpe

Senior trainer

Richard Sharpe is a journalist, editor and trainer, and a frequent speaker at industry conferences and media forums. Co-founder of ETC and a Visiting Fellow of the University of East London, he has written for the Financial Times, The Herald Tribune, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Observer. Formerly editor of Computing magazine, he is one of Europe's leading IT writers, editing or contributing to the FT Group, Blackwell, Oxford University Press, Sterling Publications and Computer Weekly.

Course programme

Advanced news writing

This comprehensive e-learning course builds on the foundations of basic news writing, exploring the many options and challenges encountered when gathering, editing, and presenting news items, in a wide variety of formats and channels. The course covers in depth all the theory and practice of advanced news writing.

What the advanced news writer needs to do

Selecting from a wider range of introductions

Developing a more advanced structure for the body of the news story

Handling more complex stories from multiple sources

Crafting news for different places in the stream of media

Intros

Identifying what’s good and bad in intros

Playing with the intro to create variety

The 6 intro options

Grab

Anecdotal

Slow burn and explode

Connection

Description

Quote

Structure

Identifying what’s good and bad in structure

Playing with the structure

Breaking up the blocks

Pulling the reader through because the copy flows easily

Using transitions

Building links between sentences and paragraphs

Object transitions

Narrative flow transitions

Fact transition

Stories in different parts of the news stream

24/7 news

Keeping it updated

Keeping it fresh

Looking for the new angle

Adding with reporting, links, maps, pix, comment pieces etc

Exercises and quizzes

To check your understanding of the theory, during the e-learning course you will be quizzed on how to handle a developing news story.

Top tips and checklists

Handy tips and checklists at key stages of the course. These cover vital topics including: using the different types of intro; advanced structure and news in different parts of the media stream.

Feedback from the trainer

Our expert trainers are here to provide you with invaluable one-to-one feedback on your progress. Email your work and the trainer will supply you with individual guidance, comments and practical suggestions. Then once you’ve improved your work, the trainer will appraise your revised content and provide a second set of constructive comments. This unique feedback really brings your learning to life and makes sure you have truly grasped - and applied - all the key principles.

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