Digital Journalism Training

A break in a training course I delivered to magazine journalists in Singapore.

Over the last 20 years, I’ve trained countless journalists, editors, writers, PRs and marketers in the core skills of online content creation and strategy. I’ve worked with everybody from senior leadership teams of national newspapers, to students preparing for the beginnings of their career in journalism.

I offer a range of courses to help you do better journalism or publishing – and can create bespoke courses to suit your organisation’s needs.Many of these courses are run online on a regular basis. Check out my online journalism training site for details.

Here’s a sample of what I offer:

Core Digital Journalism Skills

The strategies, skills and formats of digital publishing are changing all the time, and you have to learn to adapt. These baseline courses are designed to give you the core skills you need to work in the online environment, to customise what you do to your target audience, and to learn to adapt as changes happen.

These are the essential skills that all online content producers should have:

Current Courses

Digital, Audience and Content Strategy Courses

These courses are targetted at people at a slightly higher level in their organisation, and explore the latest thinking in two critical fields:

content strategy — what you publish, where you publish it and how you choose the best platforms for your audience
audience engagement strategy — which deals with finding and building deeper relationships with the audience you need to business your business.

Current Courses

Specific Digital Journalism Creation Skills

The newest addition to my range of training are a couple of new courses designed to give you the technical and creative skills to make the most of two major new formats in digital:

Social video — short videos designed explicitly to be watched in people's social media feeds, and which have very different characteristics from traditional video
Newsletters — now going through a renaissance as both a product offering and as a critical part of our audience engagement infrastructure.

Current Courses

Bespoke and In-House Training

I’ve provided bespoke in-house training for organisations as diverse as:

The Telegraph
The Times
The Financial Times
Autotrader
The Straits Times
Nursing Standard
Emap
Amnesty International
The Institute of Physics Publishing

If you want to discuss your particular in-house training needs, please feel free to drop me a line, and we can discuss further. I’m always happy to build bespoke courses for any other publishing need.