What Would You Expect on a Workshop?

New York Times Magazine cover story by Kevin Toolis

Held in ITV studios on the South Bank in London where programmes including This Morning, Ant and Dec, and Friday Night Project are made, you will be learning the real trade secrets of investigative reporting and film making from Emmy-nominated film director Kevin Toolis and award-winning writer Dea Birkett. For more information about Kevin and Dea go to www. manyriversfilms.co.uk. Or just google ‘Kevin Toolis’ or ‘Dea Birkett’

A guest editor or reporter also usually joins the workshop to talk about their life as a reporter or what kind of stories they want to commission.

There are hundreds of media studies courses in the UK but few are taught by working professionals. Even fewer courses concentrate on the day-to-day skills required for professional journalism.

Simple but basic skills like how to track people down. How to use the phone properly. What are the psychological tricks you need to master to persuade people to talk to you. And what kind of questions should you ask. And how to avoid asking the wrong sort of questions.

This one day workshop is a crash course in journalistic survival skills beginning with the fundamental rules of reporting.

The one day workshop is broken into both practical how-to sessions and detailed case studies of how news stories and films are ‘constructed’.

In the afternoon ‘pitching session’ participants will get the chance to test pitch their own ideas and sharpen their story spotting skills.

The workshop ends with a Ten Tops Tips and an open Burning Questions session – when you get the chance to ask all those unanswered queries.

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