Where Is My Public Servant (WIMPS) will provide training from BBC journalists for 13-17-year-olds, including presenting to camera, digital editing, and interview techniques
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Belfast-based political advocacy project Where Is My Public Servant (WIMPS) is running a free one-day course for would-be political journalists.
The training programme for 13-17-year-olds will focus on video and broadcasting skills and offer advice and training from BBC journalists.
Training will include: presenting to camera, digital editing, lighting and sound, and interview techniques. Participants will be given the opportunity to interview politicians as part of the course from the WIMPS project, which also offers a database of public representatives in Northern Ireland.
"This is the first media and Journalism course that we are running. WIMPS is a website and project run by and for young people. At the moment most of the young people that are working with us are 18 years old and in September they will start to go to the university. We decided to set up this training to recruit new young people during this summer," Sabrina Neri from WIMPS told Journalism.co.uk.
The course will take place in Belfast on Wednesday 21 July. For an application form email sabrina [at] publicachievement.com.
