Learn how to get a head start as a financial journalist: half-day course

Whether it is a trial shift or work experience, you want to make the best impression ahead of the day when a staff vacancy becomes available. This introductory course provides insights that will ensure you make the most of the opportunity.

Course tutor: Stephen Kahn

Date: Saturday 24 October, 2009
Time: 10.00-13.00
Venue: London NW3
Number of places: 16
Cost: £150 (+£22.50 VAT)

Since the fall of Northern Rock and the global credit crunch, business desks on national newspapers are breaking the big stories.

Financial journalism is setting the news agenda. However City offices themselves are in flux as new technology expands the role of reporters. They are becoming more involved in production as well as being required to supply their newspapers with website material. It means time is stretched and beginners must sink or swim. The course provides a buoyancy aid that should help you make an impact from Day One.

The course will include:

• How to improve your chances of getting work;
• How to prepare for your big day;
• How to structure a City story;
• How to get to grips with financial numbers;
• How to handle chief executives/PRs/analysts.

Practical advice for a follow-up shift will include:

• How to improve your game from Day Two onwards;
• Who to cultivate both inside and outside the office;
• The different demands of daily and Sunday journalism;
• White Space Phobia and the pace of a working day;
• How to look the part.

About Stephen Kahn

Stephen Kahn has been a national newspaper financial journalist for more than 30 years - the last eight of which as City Editor of the Daily Express. Early in his career he worked for the Daily Mail and Campaign magazine.

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