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
“Journalistic genres: interview and profile In this lesson I will tell you some tricks to make a good interview and a good profile. The interview is a dialogue between the journalist and another person, an exchange of opinions, of statements. The main role falls on the interviewee, but the interviewer must guide the development of the interview. The interview can be traditional, question and answer, you put the text of your question and then, immediately after, the text of the interviewee's response, but it can also be a reported interview. You are going to insert your questions and the stat...”
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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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