Journalism Training
Loose Wire offers the following training for media practitioners. Courses are between two to four days and can be tailored to suit clients’ needs. Courses are taught by Jeremy Wagstaff, drawing where appropriate on expert partners.
Journalism
- Reporting basics
- Writing for a wire or screen service
- Writing for a newspaper
- Writing proposals
- Writing features
- Investigative journalism
- Databased reporting/computer-assisted reporting
- The future of journalism
- Thinking like a reporter/editor
- Covering terrorism
- Covering disasters
- Interview techniques
- Being a foreign correspondent
- Organizing notes
Online reporting/digital reporting tools
- HTML basics
- Writing for online: thinking, reporting and writing for online publications
- Blogging basics: how to use Content Management Systems
- Using the cellphone to report
- Using email as a productivity tool
- Using online tools for research
- Really Simple Syndication
- Online tools for saving material
- Advanced online search
- Twitter for reporters
Data-based journalism/computer-assisted reporting
- Thinking visually
- Using data for getting story ideas
- Researching databases
- Data visualization tools
- Datasets
- Using graphics
- Advanced Content Management Systems
- Incorporating charts, graphics and maps into your stories
Advanced online reporting
- Browser-based productivity
- Location-based services
- Connecting devices
- LinkedIn for reporters
- Recording and editing multimedia
- Using maps
- Advanced use of cellphone as a reporting tool
- Advanced RSS
- Advanced Twitter for reporters
- Advanced Facebook for reporters
Advanced online media for editors
- Incorporating social media into the newsroom
- Using social media to promote stories
- Facebook for media
- Twitter for media
- Case studies of social media and traditional media
- The business end of social media
- The future of media
- Setting policies for reporters online
