Introduction to Journalistic Writing
Journalistic genres: interview and profile
A course by Paco Herranz , Journalist
About the video: Journalistic genres: interview and profile
Overview
“Now I am going to give you some tips and concepts to keep in mind to do a good interview and a good profile, two of the main journalistic genres.”
In this video lesson Paco Herranz addresses the topic: Journalistic genres: interview and profile, 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. i will provide tips on how to effectively conduct interviews and create compelling An interview is a conversation between a journalist and someone else. involving an exchange of viewpoints and The main responsibility lies with the interviewee. yet the interviewer should steer the interview's direction. An interview might be conducted as a... In a question-and-answer format. you write the question followed by the interviewee's response. Alternatively. it can be a reported interview. where the dialogue is summarized rather than verbatim. Insert your questions and the interview...”
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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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