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Go Freelance! Evening Class

An evening class for those wishing to be freelance journalists. The aim of this course is to facilitate entry into the profession; to show how to launch a career in freelance journalism or to help existing writers add to their existing skills. By the end of the course, participants should be well prepared to develop a career as a freelance writer.

This course is tutored by Nick Barlay, an established freelance journalist and well known author.
  Go Freelance  
Week 1:

Introduction to Journalism and writing news

 
Week 2:

Ideas and Angles (1)

 
Week 3:

Ideas and Angles (2) Developing proposals

 
Week 4:

Research

 
Week 5:

Style, Features intros, narrative

 
Week 6:

Interviewing (1)

 
Week 7:

Interviewing (2) Profiles, human interest

 
Week 8: Reviewing  
Week 9: Travel  

Week 10:

Freelancing

 

There are four writing assignments included in the course - all of which will be reviewed by the course tutor.


Course Date and time:

Commencing 24 September 2008.
Held on ten consecutive Wednesday evenings from 6.30 - 8.30pm
The course will begin again in January 2009

Course Fee: £ 325 (inc vat)

Application Form

Other Evening Classes:
Travel Journalism (Evening) Media Law Introduction (Daytime)
Creative Writing (Evening) Media Law Advanced (Daytime)
Introduction to Journalism (Evening) Introduction to Journalism (Daytime)
News! (Saturday mornings) Writing for Womens' Magazines (Daytime)
Creative Writing (Daytime) Freelance Writing for the Internet (Daytime)
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