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12 WEEK PRINT COURSE DETAILS
The course is based at The Thomson Foundation, which has training rooms equipped with state-of-the-art software. Participants will also have access to Cardiff University’s journalism library. The course includes:
- News gathering, selection, research, and writing
- Interviewing techniques
- Structuring stories – reports and features
- Writing styles
- Writing headlines and subbing
- Photo-journalism
- Basic filming, writing to pictures and editing
- Website content production (writing for the web, video and audio streaming)
- Team management
- The roles of the editor, the sub-editor and the reporter
- Issues of ethics, law and responsibility facing the journalist
- Issues-related modules e.g. environment, health etc.
- Modules on specialist reporting e.g. sport, investigative etc.
- A one-day course on working in hostile environments
The course is an intensive programme of discussions, demonstrations and practical exercises that call for active participation by all course members.
It simulates realistic newspaper production under close professional guidance.
Participants prepare news reports and features to tight deadlines on ‘production days’. They find and research stories, conduct interviews, produce copy and shape and produce newspapers and websites.
The Instructors
The Foundation's instructors are all experienced professionals with a wide and varied background in news journalism. They are supported by working journalists and editors to give specialist training and offer a wide exposure to the great variety of print journalism in Britain.
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