Journalists develop information through interviews and sources. The most successful journalists quickly master these important skill sets. The production of journalism relies on several elements: newsgathering, interviewing sources, researching and trying to find as much information as possible. The course will also teach you how to where to find information, interviewing skills and how to process information from various sources for publication.
This course is part of the Become a Journalist: Report the News! Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Earning and keeping trust
Types of sources
Interviewing
Tools for finding sourcing
Reviews
- 5 stars79.87%
- 4 stars14.04%
- 3 stars3.98%
- 2 stars0.83%
- 1 star1.25%
TOP REVIEWS FROM GATHERING AND DEVELOPING THE NEWS
Great content, but implementation of "Peer Eval" system is very spotty and slows down the learning process.
As non journalist I find this course interesting and educating. Can truly recommend it.
This class teaches about the importance of data and how to find the data correctly and provides examples of cases that make this class very good.
This course was a great follow up to the first one. Knowing where to go to find sources is very important. I was especially intrigued by the section on crowd-sourcing content.
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