Introduction to Journalistic Writing
Document for the interview
A course by Paco Herranz , Journalist
About the video: Document for the interview
Overview
“In this lesson we will review the process of preparing to interview our sources. I will tell you about different tools and good practices to do it in the most efficient way.”
In this video lesson Paco Herranz addresses the topic: Document for the interview, 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
“Document for the interview In this lesson I will address the process of documenting interviews to the sources of information we get. The first thing we have to do is meet the person we will interview, read all possible documents about that person, statements, interviews you have already done. For that, Wikipedia is especially useful. It has become a very useful tool. One of my tricks is to read Wikipedia in different languages for the same person. For example, if I have to document a European commissioner, what I do is read on Wikipedia in different languages, everything that says the biogr...”
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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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