Introduction to Journalistic Writing
Journalistic formats and genres
A course by Paco Herranz , Journalist
About the video: Journalistic formats and genres
Overview
“Next, I will briefly explain the different journalistic formats. I will focus more on informative journalistic genres, including reporting.”
In this video lesson Paco Herranz addresses the topic: Journalistic formats and genres, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Journalistic Writing. Learn to write a good, non-fiction story that combines journalistic techniques and genres, such as interviewing and news reporting.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson. we will delve into formats and journalistic genres. with a particular emphasis on genres. This includes the feature article. which will be our main focus in this discussion. our final project. Among the formats. we will mainly focus on print media. In Spain. what we now understand as newspapers appeared in the 17th century. especially during the reign of Philip IV. We called them Gazettes. The Madrid Gazette is the precursor to Official State Bulletin. Our final project will focus on print media. but other formats exist too. like web and radio formats. offering diverse ways ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Journalistic Writing
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Communication, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storytelling, Writing
Paco Herranz
A course by Paco Herranz
Paco Herranz holds a doctorate in communication sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since 2010, he has been teaching writing courses for the Journalism, Edition, Production, and New Technologies master's program at the CEU San Pablo University, as well as classes on the history of journalism at the University Carlos III of Madrid. He currently collaborates with the Russian news outlet Sputnik, writing weekly analyses on international politics, and with the educational history magazine La Aventura de la Historia. He also works for the digital platform industry TALKS.
From 1989 to 2013, Paco worked for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo and held a variety of positions during his time there, including collaborator, reporter, correspondent in Moscow, and head of international news. As a reporter, he has covered three armed conflicts, written numerous reports on a broad range of topics, and interviewed people from a wide range of backgrounds and circumstances. His career has taken him across the world to report in countries like the United States, Canada, Venezuela, Brazil, Angola, Taiwan, South Korea, Israel, Turkey, Algeria, Poland, the Baltic States, Italy, and Sweden.
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