What is Journalism
- What makes a good journalist?
- The skills of a good journalist
- Role in journalism
- Categories of written publication
What is News
- News ideas
- Assessing news value
- Good news and bad
Gathering News
- News room
- Contacts and news leads
- Investigative reporting
- Developing story ideas
- Chasing facts
- Making inquiries
- Taking notes
- Dealing with people
- Being fair and thorough
- Pictures
- Sources of background information
Interviewing
- Preparation
- Establishing confidence
- Coaxing answers
- Checking back
- Telephone interviews
- Controversial interviews
- Failed interviews
- Vetting copy
Local Reporting
- The district reporter
- Developing contacts
- Local organisations
- People in the know
- The local angle
- Diary jobs
News Writing
- The right angle
- Style
- Opening sentence
- Grabbing the reader
- Order of facts
- Quotes
- Presentation
- Helping the reader
- Complaints
- Summarising
- Writing for the national, local and other news markets
Newspaper Language
- Newspaper english
- Journalese
- Sequence and structure
- Storytelling techniques
- Bad habits
- Style
- Punctuation
- Quotes
- Grammar
News Reporting
- Courts
- Government
- Politics
- Business and industry
- Religion
- Sport
Specialist Writing
- Feature writing
- Arts reviews
Newspaper Structure
- Roles
- Copy input
- Page production
- Press and post press
Ethics
- Press complaints
- Accountability
- Informants
- People in the news
Example Candidate Response Booklet
Example Candidate Response (ECR) Booklets are a source of crucial information for Centres and Candidates as they use real candidate responses. We ask Senior Examiners to comment on five or more responses in terms of why the mark was awarded with commentary about how to improve the answer (if necessary).
