Attention teachers! Did your school take part in a Future Journalist workshop this year? 

If not, here’s what you missed out on… 

The student workshops have been a great success, we had a significant number of entries from those schools that have participated. Entries for the competition are now closed and we eagerly await the judge’s announcement of the winners. 

During the workshops we delved deep into the world of journalism, teaching the students how to use a variety of equipment we use in our day to day and providing advice on writing and interviewing techniques.  

Some of the areas covered were: 

• Using the IXM microphones and showing how they worked 
• How to operate a camera and the different ways to make a film piece look as best as it can 
• Writing and interview techniques as well as how to write a good script 

The workshops provided a basis for being a good journalist incorporating audio, visual and written. These core values once learned how to do properly can provide anyone with the foundations of being a good journalist. 

This also gave a chance for the students to use their own ideas, being as creative as possible as well as independence as the task was very open to focus on areas, they were most interested in. There was a lot of really great ideas discussed and this showed in the entries submitted. 

It was great to see all the ‘future journalists’ of tomorrow working hard and creating some great pieces. It was very difficult to narrow down all the different entries as they all had great ideas and the students had clearly put a lot of effort into their work. All great qualities to becoming a future journalist! 

We hope all the schools who took part enjoyed the workshops, we had great feedback from the schools that did, and we patiently await the awards day on Thursday, April 11 in Staffordshire University’s Catalyst building. To keep updated make sure to check our social media and regularly uploaded blog posts. Hope to see you all there. 

Good luck!