Lesson Name: Introduction To News,
This intensive course delves into English-language reporting and newswriting, including interviewing, news judgment and polishing your prose. The class functions as a kind of boot camp, with lots of writing on deadline, including from mock press conferences and outside assignments. An experimental online classroom has been set up to facilitate the distribution of tip sheets and other resources as well as for students to submit assignments and receive feedback.
The course will introduce the students to news writing and reporting: How to write the lead/intro, techniques of news writing and reporting, news sources and techniques for newsgathering
This course is designed to train you to become skilled in writing publishable news stories. The course examines the basic definitions of news, types of news, news values, structures of news, and journalistic news presentation formats. The course also examines the various types of headline, leads, and the inverted pyramid, transitions and news structure.