This four-week flexible online course helps you develop storytelling techniques for truly engaging your audience
Journalism is complex but the secret to good storytelling is simple: people love to read about people.
This hands-on course explores techniques for writers such as case studies, sourcing expert views and playing up the human interest to build empathy with your readers and make your stories really come alive.
This four-week course will be taught online. This includes one lesson per week over four consecutive weeks on the same day, plus practical exercises, ongoing feedback and a critique of a draft feature for your chosen publication.
This course is suitable for all professional writers — from career starters beginning their writing career to established journalists looking to refine their skillset in an increasingly competitive freelance market.
These insider-knowledge secrets could help you break into new markets and widen your writing portfolio.
David Atkinson is an established freelance journalist with bylines including the Telegraph, Guardian and Daily Mail. He is also a Lecturer in Media at the University of Chester, teaching news reporting and feature writing across undergraduate and postgraduate modules.
Session 1: Tell your story
Session 2: People make stories
Session 3: Know your reader
Session 4: Writing a draft
This is an online course that will require around 3-4 hours of work each week.
David Atkinson is an established freelance journalist with bylines including the Telegraph, Guardian and Daily Mail. He is also a lecturer in media at the University of Chester, teaching news reporting and feature writing across undergraduate and postgraduate modules.
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