NUJ JOURNALISM COURSES IN OCTOBER

This course is for anyone who would benefit from understanding the principles and actions behind successful features. It covers writing with style for professional publications and includes sessions on building a story, structure, interviewing, and pitching. Every aspect of writing outstanding features will be covered, from understanding your audience, publication and subject, to research, writing and interview skills.

This one-day course delves into the post-truth age, where mis/disinformation is rife and trust in facts, let alone newsgathering, is in freefall. This course will help you reinforce your skills in an ever-evolving media and AI-driven landscape, because facts matter. Trust matters, and reporting something approaching the truth has never mattered more. There will be frequent screen breaks throughout. The course will look at how to spot fake news, check images and videos, and use online investigation tools.

The Effective Freelance is designed to cover not only the essentials of working as a freelancer – organisation, negotiating, producing work, markets, law and financial record-keeping – but also living as a freelancer, including personal finance, etc. It will include breaking into new markets, establishing terms, chasing payment, improving returns, specialist journalism, handling money, tax and deductible expenses, and copyright.

This is a one-day, hands-on course designed to introduce journalists and others to some of the principles of using iPhones or iPads to shoot, edit and upload short films. Participants will shoot and capture their own material on the day and edit it into a finished film, learning how to use voice-over, still images, graphics, text and other content to enhance the appearance of the project.