This course is designed to teach you how to write news stories in an effective and engaging way using techniques employed by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Ewen MacAskill and other journalists around the world.
Ewen will teach you how you can make your stories stand out and become a better storyteller.
This is the first course in a series on news writing. In two further courses, Ewen will build on what you learn here and take you through more advanced techniques and the art of news analysis.
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this course you will be able to:
- Tell a story using the Inverted Pyramid style
- Write a news story in simple, clear language
- Use a drop intro
- Humanise a story
- Provide context to a story
- Appreciate the value and importance of going to the scene
Course Syllabus:
1. What is Story Telling?
2. How to Write a Basic News Story
3. The Story, the Audience and the Opening Sentence
4. How to Write News Better
5. Humanising Stories
6. More Ways to improve stories
7. End of course survey
