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Galah's 'On being a journalist' course

Galah's 'On being a journalist' course

$500.00 AUD
$500.00 AUD
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Galah's 'On being a journalist' course will be taught live, online, over eight weeks in a small and intimate group. Each student will receive personal feedback from a Galah editor.

During the course, participants will work on a story of their own choosing to apply their learnings. These stories may be chosen for publication in Galah.

The course will begin on 27 August, with weekly half-day sessions held each Tuesday between 9.30am and 1pm AEST for eight weeks. 

The course will cover: 

Reporting

  • What makes a story interesting?
  • How to find a story.
  • Planning a story.
  • What a story needs in order to work.
  • Interviewing techniques.
  • Fact checking, attribution, bias and objectivity.
  • Dealing with sources.

Writing

  • How to craft compelling sentences (such as by using the active voice).
  • Using the right tone of voice and style.
  • Writing strong intros.
  • Showing, not telling,
  • Putting the reader first.
  • How to structure different kinds of stories. 

Editing

  • Tightening and cutting copy.
  • Writing headlines that work across print and online.
  • Spotting common grammatical mistakes.
  • Using punctuation marks, including apostrophes, commas, hyphens, dashes, semicolons and more.
  • Proofreading. 

The business of being a writer 

  • Finding work.
  • How to pitch to publications. 
  • Word rates – what to expect. 
  • Ethics, copyright and defamation.
  • How to self-publish (with a focus on newsletters).

About the course presenter: Dan Kaufman 

Dan Kaufman has been a writer and editor for over 30 years. 

After working on a variety of different magazines in the 90s, he then joined The Sydney Morning Herald, where he wrote for and edited almost every feature section at one time or another, from Travel to Health and Science. 

He also launched Sydney Bar Zine, which he ran for half a decade, and taught journalism and media writing at UTS and The University of Sydney.

He’s now the director of Media Survival, an editorial consultancy that helps organisations improve their content. He also still writes the occasional column for The Sydney Morning Herald.


Questions
For more information on the course, please contact Lyndsie at lyndsie@galahpress.com

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