Prerequisites

• University degree in journalism.
• At least one year journalism field for non-media graduates.

Course Description

A television report is a concise form of storytelling that blends visuals, sound, and script to deliver news with clarity and impact. Typically lasting two to three minutes, a report must have a compelling introduction, a clear narrative structure, and a memorable conclusion. This course equips participants with the foundational skills to produce effective in-house TV reports, focusing on storytelling, scriptwriting, and visual-text alignment—all within the structure of newsroom operations.

Course Objective

By the end of this course, participants will:
• Explore the nature of field journalism, its role, tools, and responsibilities.
• Define the principles of writing news reports within a newsroom environment.
• Apply visual language techniques and align them effectively with scripted content.

Course Outline

• Introduction to fundamentals of TV work:
- Principles of journalistic work and its ethics.
- Importance of in-house report and its features.
- Templates for TV news editing.
- Nature of topics that must be addressed in an in-house report.
- Things to avoid in reporting.

• Mechanisms for preparing TV reports:
- Identify the report's topic and information sources.
- Prioritize the most important news, followed by less important ones.
- Importance of visuals and sentences in the introduction and conclusion.
- Use short sentences and avoid long ones.
- Rhythm and its importance (commentary, natural sounds, silence, audio).

• Creative skills:
- Visual language and its expressive ability.
- Search for images related to the story.
- Concept of writing for picture.
- Visual inputs.

Course Benefits

• A graduation certificate by Al Jazeera Media Institute.