Writing the news: Catherine Deveney

Date/Time
Date(s) - Tue 6th Sep, 2016
4:00pm - 6:00pm

Location
Dingwall Community Library, Dingwall, , IV15 9LT

So  you want to be a journalist?

This journalism workshop explains the basic skills needed to write for newspapers.  Find out:

•  What the five W’s of news are.

•  What drives the news agenda.

•  Where to gather information for news. 

•  How to write an eye-catching news story.

There will be an opportunity to ask questions about journalism and find out about the latest opportunities in media training and careers.

 

Catherine Deveney is a freelance journalist and the author of four novels.  A former teacher, she has worked across all sections of national newspapers as well as presenting her own series of television interviews for STV and Grampian.   The bulk of her career has been as a feature writer and celebrity interviewer for Sunday newspapers but in 2013, she diverted into hard news when she broke the story of Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s sexual advances to his own priests.  This led to the resignation of the Cardinal, the most senior Catholic cleric in Britain.   Deveney went on to write a series of articles about abuse and corruption within the Catholic Church.  In addition to her work as a journalist and author, she delivers training courses for journalists and teaches feature writing, interviewing techniques and creative writing.

Free to all Highland residents aged 14 – 25.

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