Package Like A Pro: how to produce news packages for TV
What you'll learn
- Package Like A Pro teaches how to use journalism skills and ethics to produce stories with a quality that appeals to international TV networks
- You’ll learn how to put together a news story and to become the go-to-source for packages on the stories happening around you
- You’ll also learn what makes a good news story, how to write and voice a script, and how to film a signature Piece To Camera, PTC
- This course will help you turn your newsgathering and storytelling hobby into a money-making gig.
Requirements
- A passion for factual storytelling
Description
International TV news networks are becoming increasingly reliant on freelance reporters where their access to a story or breaking news is limited. Unfortunately, it's hard to find skilled freelance correspondents in many of these regions who can deliver the quality of packaged news most networks are looking for.
Package Like A Pro is designed to help you fill that gap and jump-start your journalism career while making a living. This course narrows down the skills many news correspondents and senior producers spend at least a decade learning on the job.
Now at your fingertips, you can become the go-to-source for the stories happening around you while taking advantage of the opportunity to shape the narratives of the stories breaking in your region of the world with respect to the ethics of good journalism.
This course is appropriate for mid-career or young journalists, journalists fresh out of J-school who want to rise quickly in the newsroom, content creators, writers, VJs, freelancers, and anyone trying to jumpstart a career in freelance journalism.
You’ll learn what makes a good news story, why international news media would be interested in airing it, how to write and voice a script, and how to film a signature Piece To Camera.
Who this course is for:
- This course is appropriate for freelance journalists especially those in remote or hard to reach areas where news is always happening like Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. It is also appropriate for mid-career journalists, students fresh out of J-school who want to rise quickly in a TV newsroom, content creators, writers, and VJs.
Instructor
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Adesewa Josh is an award-winning broadcast journalist and the host of Africa Matters. She was the host of 21st Century, an Emmy-nominated documentary program which she also co-produced with the United Nations Television (UNTV) in New York.
She began her journalism career on Channels Television, an international cable news network in Nigeria, as a prime-time news anchor and foreign affairs correspondent. Miss Josh was the only Nigerian journalist invited by the US White House to cover the inaugural African First Ladies Conference hosted by First Ladies Michelle Obama and Laura Bush in 2014.
Adesewa won the Exceptional Women in Media Award in 2014 and was nominated for the prestigious Future Africa Awards in 2017. She was named one of Nigeria’s 100 Most Inspiring Women in 2019. She graduated with an M.A. in Politics and Global Affairs from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2017.
She's a co-author of the book Refugee’s Messenger, a compilation of personal experiences reporting in fragile zones like Somalia, Northern Nigeria, and Mali. Adesewa has had exclusive interviews with presidents, top government officials, and diplomats. She’s an Associate Fellow of the prestigious Nigeria Leadership Initiative, a platform for distinguished Nigerian leaders, and a member of the Overseas Press Club. She founded an NGO called Project Smile Africa in 2013 to address the scourge of teenage pregnancy and child marriage in Africa.