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Media Training for Beginners: Ace Your First News Interviews
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(79 ratings)
25,782 students

Media Training for Beginners: Ace Your First News Interviews

How to prepare for media interviews, even if you are scared and have never been interviewed before in your life.
Created byTJ Walker, Media Training Worldwide Digital
Last updated 1/2026
English
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What you'll learn

  • Preparing for Your First Media Interview
  • Eliminating Nervousness
  • Improving On-Camera skills
  • Message Development
  • Answering Questions
  • Speaking in Sound Bites
  • Mastering Fundamentals of Media Training

Course content

3 sections • 23 lectures • 54m total length

  • Overview0:56

    Prepare for news interviews by focusing on your goals to deliver the exact message and secure the quotes you want, coming across natural, confident, and relaxed on camera.

  • Secrets to Creating Captivating Messages3:38

    Craft a focused media message for interviews by identifying three top points that fit what you want, what the reporter wants, and what the audience needs.

  • Please Introduce Yourself0:09
  • Answering Questions5:58

    Master concise interview responses by sticking to a simple, message-driven approach, briefly answer questions, and consistently reference your key messages in every answer.

  • Instant Answers to Your Interview Questions0:26
  • Creating Sound Bites4:58

    Turn your messages into quotable soundbites reporters can quote, using emotion, absolutes, and rhetorical questions, crafting nine soundbites for three messages while avoiding humor and attacks.

  • Exciting New Update to this Course1:28

    I've listen to you tell me that you found it difficult to upload your homework videos to the Udemy Q and A Section. To make it easier for you to get quick feedback from me and your fellow students, I've created a Facebook page just for my Udemy students.


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    Please note that this page is just for posting homework and questions related to your course. There will be no promotion or selling of any kind by me or any students in this forum. And please note, that you are in no way required to join this page or post your videos to Facebook. You can simply use the Udemy Q and A section here if you prefer.


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  • Save Time With This Cheat Sheet2:36

    Create a single cheat sheet with three main messages and three soundbites per point to guide every interview, then practice delivering on camera while staring at the sheet.

  • Looking Good on TV7:51

    overcome on camera nerves by maintaining eye contact with the reporter, moving naturally, bridging to your message points, and dressing to suit your role on tv.

  • Practice Your Interview Homework Using the TJ Walker AI Clone0:16
  • Quiz 1

Requirements

  • video recording device on mobile phone, tablet or PC

Description

Imagine yourself confidently answering a reporter's questions, knowing that you are going to get the exact messages and quotes you want in the final news story. You can give interviews right now, with the same skill as someone who has done thousands of interviews over decades.

Media Training for Beginners covers every aspect of speaking to the news media. Even if you have never been interviewed before, you can quickly gain the confidence you need to get your message across, after completing this course. TJ Walker is an internationally renowned media trained with more than 30 years of experience. He will teach you how to do four things: 1. Look comfortable on camera. 2. Prepare media messages. 3. Answer questions strategically and 4. Speak in sound bites.

After spending four hours in this course, you will learn how to be successful in any interview. You do not have to learn in front of the whole world during a real interview. The time to learn media do's and don'ts is now before your next interview takes place.

This course will give you step-by-step instructions on how to prepare and practice for any media interview, talk show appearance, or interaction with a reporter. Your homework will include conducting practice interviews with yourself using your cell phone or other video recording device. As unpleasant as that may seem, the homework will drastically reduce your nervousness for your real interview.

You do not have to do a poor or average job on media interviews for a dozen years in order to be great at media interviews. You can learn the secrets right now.

TJ Walker will be sharing with you the very best secrets he has learned over the last 30 years conducting media training sessions with Celebrities, Presidents of countries, Prime Ministers, Nobel Peace Prize winners, NFL stars, and even Miss Universes. He's trained more than 10,000 people from six contents and most were frightened and nervous before their first interview.

Now is your chance to learn top media training skills from a first-class media trainer. You will not regret signing up for this class.


Here is what Udemy students say about this course:

"I know Tj since 2006 when I followed a live seminar in NY city. He's a great professional. This course is a great way to start with media relations. As soon as you completed it, buy the other ones!"  Nicola Bonaccini

''Well organized course with a lot of solid tips and ideas. I'm looking forward to taking more courses from TJ.'' LaMonte Forthun


Who this course is for:

  • Beginning media interviewees
  • Anyone who has never been interviewed before
  • Junior Executives
  • First-time Authors

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