Journalism courses London

Journalism: Introduction

An excellent introduction to different types of writing for anyone who wants to fast track a career into journalism - whether you plan to be writing for magazines or newspapers, working in PR or contributing to house journals.

We will cover all aspects of journalism including news reporting, researching a story, feature writing, interview techniques, sub-editing and essential legal and privacy issues.

Our talented journalism trainers have many years of experience teaching and writing professionally. Our courses are run in central London. Our London training centres are very conveniently located beside King\\\'s Cross and Waterloo stations. If you prefer a venue outside London or want a course to take place at your office we can arrange a bespoke course for you.

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Effective Interviewing Techniques

Designed for anyone involved in journalism or who has to conduct interviews - whether you are a writer, researcher or someone who is required to undertake interviews face to face or over the phone as part of your job.

We will cover asking the right questions, opening gambits, avoiding closed answers, keeping an interview on-track and how to ensure you leave an interview with the information you need. We also cover tips and tricks for dealing with reluctant or difficult interviewees.

Our talented journalism trainers have many years of experience teaching and writing professionally. Our courses are run in central London. Our London training centres are very conveniently located beside King\'s Cross and Waterloo stations. If you prefer a venue outside London or want a course to take place at your office we can arrange a bespoke course for you.

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Pitching Ideas and Getting Commissions

As everyone involved in freelance journalism knows, coming up with a great idea and writing an interesting article is only half the battle. Unless you know how to sell your ideas even the most brilliant work can end up unused.

Understanding who will be interested in your story and what will make your idea attractive will drastically increase the number of commissions you receive.

We will teach you how to sell your ideas by phone and by email and who to pitch them to in order to get commissions.

Our talented journalism trainers have many years of experience teaching and writing professionally. Our courses are run in central London. Our London training centres are very conveniently located beside King\'s Cross and Waterloo stations. If you prefer a venue outside London or want a course to take place at your office we can arrange a bespoke course for you.

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Review Writing

For writers and those working in journalism who need to write reviews whatever the subject.

Whether you are new to review and test writing, or are a more experienced review writer who wants to refresh and sharpen your copy you will benefit from the course.

It is highly recommended that delegates bring examples of their own work - published or in progress - for discussion with the trainer on the day.

Our talented journalism trainers have many years of experience teaching and writing professionally. Our courses are run in central London. Our London training centres are very conveniently located beside King\'s Cross and Waterloo stations. If you prefer a venue outside London or want a course to take place at your office we can arrange a bespoke course for you.

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Video for Journalism - Shooting and Editing Footage

Increasingly journalists are being asked to shoot professional video footage to accompany reports - often working alone.

We will look at basic video camera technology, how to capture general footage and record interviews. Days two and three are studio based as you will edit your footage, adding sound and voiceovers.

We include a comprehensive introduction to either Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express with the emphasis on capturing footage and preparing video for broadcast or the web.

Our talented video journalism trainers have many years of experience teaching and writing professionally. Our courses are run in central London. Our London training centres are very conveniently located beside King\\\'s Cross and Waterloo stations. If you prefer a venue outside London or want a course to take place at your office we can arrange a bespoke course for you.


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Data Journalism: Introduction

Data-driven journalism is the increasingly popular journalistic process of analysing and filtering data to find new stories or different angles on existing stories. This is a one day course that will teach Journalists to how use the many powerful data-analysis tools of Microsoft Excel to assess data found different sources and look for stories within the facts.

This course assumes a working knowledge of Excel. It is not a course that will teach you to write a story, if you wish to hone your writing skills, you should consider taking our Introduction to Feature Writing or Introduction to News Writing courses as well.

Our talented video journalism trainers have many years of experience teaching and writing professionally. Our courses are run in central London. Our London training centres are very conveniently located beside King\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Cross and Waterloo stations. If you prefer a venue outside London or want a course to take place at your office we can arrange a bespoke course for you.

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Writing for Live Events

Writing live is a new challenge for journalists and requires the ability to take proven journalism techniques and adapt them to an audience used to the delivery of information found on social media platforms.

This one day course looks at how to report on events that are often unstructured and chaotic and give help on how to find a story that will appeal to readers and how to give the story structure and order. You will also gain practical advice on how to keep the reader engaged and use the wider social network to add a human element to your reporting.

This course is designed for people who already have writing or journalistic experience. If you do not, you should attend our Introduction to Journalism or Introduction to Feature Writing or News Writing courses first.

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