Investigative reporting workshop
By: Gaith S
You read the newspaper to find that some stories are longer than others. Some stories give in-depth information, while, others analyze situations. Have you ever asked what are the differences between the many articles you read in a newspaper?
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The workshop instructors were David Quin from UK, he is a long time journalist working in Lebanon for many media outlets including the BBC, and Helen Scot an experienced journalist who worked for many years with the UK news paper the Daily Mail, and now owns a TV documentary production firm in UK that makes documentaries for the Discovery channel.
The workshop covered many topics in investigative journalism, including the difference between news, feature analytical story and investigative story.
“Before any thing you must know who is your reader” said Helen, adding that the journalist should know their readers in order to write any type of sorties that should be relevant to the readers.
News stories are shortest a