Prerequisites

- Holding a suitable educational qualification.
- Good knowledge about football and good understanding of the game.
- The desire to develop performance and work professionally in the field of preparation and analysis of football matches.

Course Description

As Qatar is only a few steps of hosting the 2020 World Cup and as it’s the first event of its kind in the Arab World and in the Middle East, focus on sports, especially football, is soaring as well as on other areas including the press, of course. With the multiplicity of journalism skills and areas of creativity, the process of sub- editing remains the core and the real focus of journalism. In this course we focus on sports editing and how to be distinguished in writing sports news as well as on reporting, analysis and various sports coverage.

Course Objective

• Acquire and develop the required journalistic editing skills for sports.
• Understanding the main techniques and artistic touch of perfect editing for different fields of sports.
• Qualifies the journalist to work in sports journalism and excel in it.
• Expand excellence zone in sports coverage so that it is not only limited to football events.
Practical training that gives the trainee a sense of confidence and excellence in journalistic editing and full competence with its arts

Course Outline

- The importance of journalism and the delight of being a sports journalist.
- An introduction to journalistic editing in general because the success of specialization is based on the quality of general knowledge.
Sports editing:
- Starting with knowledge, the rules and stars of the most famous sports, sport is not just football.
- Simple news in the newsroom: radio/TV/website.
- Address, is your door to the news.
- Sources and documentation.
- Sports report, sport analysis, dialogue and profile.
- Field coverage of sports events.
- The language of sports journalism.
- Common errors.
- Attracting the reader with a commitment to honesty and credibility.
- Writing for search engines.
- Hands-on training goes along with the theoretical knowledge throughout the course.