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
“In this lesson. i will help you ... To identify the report topics. which are part of our final project. Topics are more engaging when they are closer to the audience. What does this mean? But that's not set in stone; it indicates that reports on broader topics like those related to the nation at large. can still engage us personally. Many news organizations typically subscribe to various news for comprehensive coverage. One of the tools they disseminate includes forecasts. updates. and agendas of events already scheduled in advance. These can be summits. journalist Day. or World AIDS Day. A...”
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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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