Instructional Design for Journalists and Reporters

Instructional Design for Journalists and Reporters

This course is aimed at journalists and reporters who wish to improve their reporting skills and language. This focuses on scientific instructional design principles to train and coach Journalists in reporting events and documentaries. The course includes topics on Media and communication, writing for news, reporting skills, event profiling, communication design, storytelling, viewer/reader experience, English for reporters and others which are critical to excel in journalism.

Journalism in modern times has gone beyond just reporting news, Journalists today are into varied activities including investigations, activism, social lobbying, knowledge building and dissemination, demystifying complex issues and teaching the public about standards of various social, technological and environmental issues.

A journalist requires multiple skills today to be effective in these vastly varied and demanding roles. The journalist needs to acquire customer-centric perspectives and communication abilities to be able to fulfil his or her constituencies of audiences. The journalist today is the centre of many events and happenings bringing the full impact to his or her audience. More and more, the skills of journalism are embracing the creative domains and need to be looked upon as design projects. The journalist should creatively include elements of design into his or her communication which could take the form of written reports, videos, interviews, panel discussions and many more different forms of communication.

This course is designed to provide these skills to the journalists from the perspective of Instructional Design, which gives them a comprehensive insight into the discipline of learning and knowledge design.

Reporting skills for Journalists and Reporters

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What you will learn

• Using design in their journalistic communication
• Using Story telling to capture viewers attention
• Writing or speaking reports to engage viewers

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Level: Beginner Level

Duration: 2.5 hours

Instructor: Shanath Kumar