Description:

This Sub-Editing Course is designed to equip learners with the essential skills required to refine and enhance written content for clarity, accuracy, and consistency. Whether you are an aspiring editor, journalist, or content professional, this course will help you develop a keen eye for detail, improve readability, and maintain a publication’s style and tone.

Content:

Introduction to sub-editing:

– Main types of journalism.

– Characteristics of the journalistic text and its quality elements.

– Differences between writing for radio, print media and TV.

* Types of media editing:

– News formats: simple news, news coverage, composite news.

– Field journalism: investigation, reportage, profiling.

– Editing of humanitarian stories, interviews, opinion essay.

– Writing for the web.

* Editing and linguistic skills:

– Rewrite and review journalistic text.

– Write good headlines, introductions, comments, summaries and headlines.

– Choose the best quote from an article.

– Proofreading and discover mistakes.

What will receive it the trainee end of the course ?

–Certificate from KHDA