Radio - Get Your Foot in the Door.
Course Brief
The overall aim of this workshop is to make news bulletins more compelling, relevant and easy to understand for listeners. This workshop will explore the sources of news for local stations and it will look at both the traditional sources and new sources including social media.
Course Content
This workshop will look at the following :
- Sources of news - traditional and new sources
- How to localise national stories
- Tips on how to improve the quality of radio news bulletins
- Easy to remember rules for radio writing
Target Trainee Profile
News editors, news journalists and researchers working in teh industryNotes
This workshop will be facilitated by Paul Chantler, United Radio, which offers consultancy, support and training to the radio industry in the UK and further afield. Paul is co-author of the best-selling textbook 'Essential Radio Journalism'.