News Writing: Advanced

Delivery method
Classroom based, maximum 5 delegates

Course description
[b]Introduction[/b]
• Common news writing problems
• Assessing your weaknesses and strengths
• Turning your weaknesses into strengths

[b]Working with stories[/b]
• Isolating the essential facts that make a complex story newsworthy
• Researching complex stories
• Advanced story writing techniques
• Developing intro-writing skills
• Developing story structuring skills

[b]Structuring news stories[/b]
• News story structures
• Verifying information

[b]Sourcing news stories[/b]
• Building a network of brilliant contacts who give you stories
• Getting the stories they don't want you to get
• Finding off-diary stories
• Finding your own stories
• Developing a real nose for news

Suitable for
A course for those who wish to improve their researching and writing skills and work on ways to come up with new treatments for news stories.

Requirements
You need no previous experience to attend this course.