Introduction to Journalistic Writing
Choice of current topic
A course by Paco Herranz , Journalist
About the video: Choice of current topic
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to help you, with some tools, to choose a topic of current affairs or of social interest that can be the subject of your journalistic report.”
In this video lesson Paco Herranz addresses the topic: Choice of current topic, 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
“Choice of current topic In this lesson I am going to help you find the topics of the report that are part of our final project. Topics are more interesting the closer they are to the audience. What does this mean? That local reports can be more interesting than the national reports. That is not an absolute law, that is, it may be that a report on a general topic, on a national issue, also arouses our interest. In the newsrooms there are usually subscriptions to information agencies. One of the tools they disseminate are forecasts, advances, agendas of the events that are already fixed in ad...”
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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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