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Television News Reporting

Television News Reporting

Categories
journalism, television

Duration
5 days

Partner
Thomson Reuters Foundation

This course helps journalists develop their skills in communicating a story effectively and ethically through video. They learn how to identify, write, film and produce stories with confidence and context and to report in exciting new ways while maintaining standards of fairness, accuracy and quality. The course looks at how to capture audience interest and produce good edits. Technical skills, from basic editing to two-ways and pieces to camera are covered, as are legal dangers and copyright issues. It also covers the changing requirements of multimedia journalism and the range of audiences from traditional broadcasting to YouTube.

This training course in television news reporting helps journalists and tv news reporters develop their skills in communicating a story effectively and ethically through video. They learn how to identify, write, film and produce stories with confidence and context and to report in exciting new ways while maintaining standards of fairness, accuracy and quality. The tv news reporting course looks at how to capture audience interest and produce good edits. Technical skills, from basic editing to two-ways and pieces to camera are covered, as are legal dangers and copyright issues. It also covers the changing requirements of multimedia journalism and the range of audiences from traditional broadcasting to YouTube.

who it's for:

Television news journalists, producers, tv news reporters and camera operators and general reporters needing to gain television news reporting and broadcasting skills.

  • Who are we producing for and what are we producing? Examples of best practice
  • Overview; What makes good TV News
  • Shots, Headlines and Edits
  • What makes good News judgment? Identifying the audience; burying the lead
  •  Introduction to camera handling, good audio production and use of tripod.
  • Telling Visual Stories.
  • Foreign News Packages
  • What television news editors want and what works in multi media
  • Show don’t tell, using numbers to illustrate
  • Motivated camera moves for best editing
  • Avoiding jargon, idioms and clichés
  • Looking forward, not into past events
  • Explain the why as well as the what
  • Producing for clarity 
  • Storyboarding
  • Good Audio and why it is vital
  • Human Interest - The story, the treatment, what makes compelling content. Exercise.
  • Going forward
  • Multimedia production
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