Sports Reporting for the World Cup
- categories:
- journalism
- duration:
- 5 days
- date:
- 11 April - 15 April
- language:
- English, Arabic
what you need to know about this course
This course addresses the commercial, political and cultural importance of sport and its unifying role in fostering dialogue between the nations of the world. It aims to increase the confidence of sports journalists in providing a fast and informed reporting service without sacrificing accuracy and balance. It also helps them find unusual angles and features to complement their core coverage. It also provides the particular skills required to cover the FIFA World Cup.
who it's for:
outline:
- Key principles of sports reporting.
- Things to avoid in sports reporting
- Handling press releases from official sports bodies
- Covering major events
- Finding the lead in straight factual reports
- Reporting famous moments in sport from video footage
- Handling breaking stories – for agencies, broadcasters and websites.
- Writing up a news conference
- Features
- Do’s and don’ts on interviewing sports personalities
- Politics and sport.
- Covering a World Cup – some tips
this course is provided by Reuters Journalism Programmesregister your interest
partner
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Through the Reuters news agency, it supplies video, graphics, photographs and around eight million words daily, in 20 languages, to media organisations around the globe. For more than ...
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A multi-skilled freelance journalist and media instructor with almost 20 years of experience as a reporter or an editor for some of the world’s top news organisations, including Reuters, Agence France Press and Bloomberg.
read moreMalak has served as Editor in Charge of the Sports Service at Thomson Reuters’s Arabic desk in Cairo since 2006, where he had covered major games, including the World Cup, the Olympics and Formula 1 competitions.
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