Narrative Journalism: Techniques for Storytelling Reality

Course summary

• U1: Introduction

  • Presentation

  • Influences

• U2: Identify the theme, characters, and conflict of the chronicle

  • How to Find a Good Story: Characters and Conflict

  • A story always has three acts

  • Other literary tools for narrative journalism

  • Real-life characters with conflicts: How to develop a source list

• U3: Identify sources and interviews to observe and write

  • Develop a list of sources

  • The interview and participant observation

  • Sort the material

  • Organize the story and start writing

• U4: Putting history on its feet

  • Reread and edit: refine language, data, and facts

  • When an editor intervenes: real-life cases

• Final project

  • Introduction to Narrative Journalism

Guillermo Osorno

A course by Guillermo Osorno

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Creative Director and Advertising Strategist

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Guillermo Osorno is a creative director, strategist, and educator with over twenty years of experience leading advertising campaigns from brief to presentation. He has worked both in agencies and on in-house teams, holding leadership positions at DDB, ...