News and feature writing

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News and feature writing

National Council for the Training of Journalists
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A one-day course covering all the basic elements of news and feature writing from finding ideas and researching subjects, to meeting deadlines and delivering copy.

Aimed at: 

Anyone new to news or feature writing for newspapers, magazines and online, or professionals that are required to produce content for company newsletters, internal and external communications.

Includes:

  • Defining news and features
  • Finding story ideas
  • Hard and soft news
  • Doing your research
  • How to generate and develop ideas
  • Picture opportunities
  • Interviewing tips
  • Structuring your story
  • Quotes
  • Practical exercises with feedback

Following this course you will be able to write news and features for a range of pu…

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A one-day course covering all the basic elements of news and feature writing from finding ideas and researching subjects, to meeting deadlines and delivering copy.

Aimed at: 

Anyone new to news or feature writing for newspapers, magazines and online, or professionals that are required to produce content for company newsletters, internal and external communications.

Includes:

  • Defining news and features
  • Finding story ideas
  • Hard and soft news
  • Doing your research
  • How to generate and develop ideas
  • Picture opportunities
  • Interviewing tips
  • Structuring your story
  • Quotes
  • Practical exercises with feedback

Following this course you will be able to write news and features for a range of publications. You will also know how to structure stories and be able to work to deadlines.

Duration:        A one-day course held at NCTJ, Newport, Essex

Dates:            19 January 2012; 18 April 2012; 27 June 2012

This course is also available as an in-house, bespoke training option, for more information please contact us.

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