Sub-Editing: Advanced

Delivery method
Classroom based, maximum 5 delegates

Course description
Developing techniques for fast and efficient subbing of news stories

• Essential sub-editing checks
• Performing these checks faster and more efficiently

Advanced techniques for sympathetic and effective subbing of features

• Subbing skills for interviews
• Subbing first person pieces
• Subbing comment pieces
• Improving copy without rewriting

Subbing articles contributed by non-journalists

• How to handle rewrites
• Good and bad ways to approach a re-write
• How to keep the writer happy

Writing better headlines, standfirsts, captions and other sells

• Why some headlines work and some don't
• Creating headlines to give added appeal to a story

Suitable for
A course that improves your ability to sub a wide range of news and features material.

Requirements
You need no previous experience to attend this course.