We work largely in the fields of journalism, communications, human rights and development. We’ve developed learning and training in the following subjects:
- Editorial values: accuracy, impartiality, balance, fairness
- News values: change, impact, proximity
- Human rights reporting
- Writing skills: plain language for web, social media, and print
- Writing for audiences: tone, style, idiom
- Persuasive writing, storytelling structures, self-editing
- Advanced writing skills: developing a voice, editing, stylesheets
- Interactive programming
- Citizen journalism
- Audience-led scheduling
- Working with sound
- Voice and presentation skills
- Writing for radio, TV, new media, print
- Package-making
- Writing cues and bulletins
- Blogging and podcasting
- Media law
- Finding ideas and sources of news
- Spotting fake news and verification techniques
- Interview skills, styles and techniques
- Advanced interview skills
- Interviewing children and young people
- Creative station and newsroom management
- Journalists safety and digital security
- Budget monitoring for reporters
- Media and governance
- Conflict-sensitive journalism and programming
- Reporting gender-based violence
- Working with marginalised groups and vulnerable people
- Campaigns: planning, execution, monitoring and evaluation
- Social media including basic production skills for audio/video
- Being interviewed
- Understanding mainstream media
- Writing press releases
- Hosting news conferences
- Mobile journalism: smartphone package-making
- Media planning and strategy: your next twelve months
- Identifying audiences and ‘news pegs’
- Building links with the media: becoming a source and nurturing media relationships
- Smartphone photography and video
- Advanced photography: beyond the presets on a DSLR
- Image editing and selection