The Netherlands
News Stories to Boost Security and the Rule of Law
Journalism without story has much less impact. Modern journalists need to be great storytellers because they tell important stories. Narrative journalism teaches journalists to tell the important stories in a country – it is one of the keys to accountability, transparency and democracy.
Traditional journalism training focuses on information, not stories. Just giving information is not sufficient in the 21st century with all the platforms available for disseminating news. Journalism based on Who, What, Where, Why, When and How, and classic journalism training using a very narrow range of ways of reporting will leave your news items having much less impact.
This two week course combines RNTC’s unique modules of story, formats and creativity giving participants all the tools they need to tell great stories in thousands of different ways, enabling journalists to take their story-telling skills to an international level. The theories are then applied specifically to the producing of news items in any medium and of any duration, with practical exercises and assignments requiring you to craft great stories in many different ways. Tutors include experienced BBC and international journalists and great factual storytellers in many media and on many platforms.
Course outline
- Breaking the dominance of information-lead reporting, to deliver important information in story form.
- Advanced story theory including the crafting of single and multiple storylines within journalistic items.
- Working creatively with formats to provide huge choices of how to tell the great stories you’ve uncovered.
- Introduction to Learning and Persuasion theories that ensure you craft the emotional journey for your audience, not just the information.
- Getting clear and precise aims and target audiences for your items, articles and programmes. When you know who you’re making it for and why, you can get the tone, style and tempo right.
- Building confidence and competence in analyzing the story you are building and improving the story with every new draft or edit.
- Advanced understanding and use of symbols and their key role in telling factual stories.
- International parameters of ethical, verified story research and journalistic integrity.
Learning outcomes
- To build confidence and competence in producing creative, powerful, persuasive media campaigns on any subject and in all media.
- To enable participants to understand the theories of story, formats, creativity, learning, persuasion and audience mapping and start putting them into practice.
Click here for more information and to apply.
RNTC application deadline: 5 September 2016
NFP/MSP application deadline: 2 February - 25 March 2016
