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Have you ever wanted to get published? There’s a huge market for non-fiction articles beyond traditional news stories. But you need to be able to write clear, concise and informative stories. Whether you want to blog to express your opinions or do the kind of objective features reporting you read in international media, this series of four workshops will equip you with the tools you need to both write and pitch your stories to media or self-publish them online. The series will begin by examining how to find story ideas. Through practical exercises and assignments, participants will learn how to ask targeted questions and sharpen their interviewing skills. They will learn how to structure a news story, feature or editorial. The workshops will equally focus on diversity, context and analysis in reporting, as well as how to express personal experiences and opinions effectively through style and persuasive writing. You’ll write your own feature story or blog, and have it critiqued as your final assignment.
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Workshop schedule
Week 1
How to find story ideas and develop your interviewing skills
Week 2
Expressing your opinion effectively: primers for writing blogs and editorials
Week 3
How to write a soft feature story
Week 4
How to craft a hard news story
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The facilitator
These workshops will be taught by Jen Ross, a Chilean-Canadian journalist with more than 20 years of writing and editing experience. She has worked in a variety of newsrooms in Canada and as a freelance foreign correspondent, covering Latin America and the Caribbean for several years. Her stories have been published in hundreds of newspapers, magazines and online media around the world, and her radio and television documentaries have been broadcast widely, in three languages. She also has 10 years of experience working in communications and public information for the United Nations. Currently living in Aruba, she teaches in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Aruba and runs her own consultancy with a range of editorial services. She has also written her first novel.
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