Investigative Journalism Workshop

Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years researching and preparing a report.

This workshop presented by Mr. Daoud Ibrahim will be following the below guidelines to prpepare you for your next invetigative adventure.

– Investigative Journalism in words
– The history
– The reporters
– The influence
– The role
– Defining investigative journalism stories
– Introduction to the concepts and techniques of investigative reporting
– Creating Hypotheses.
– The mechanism of investigative stories
– Organising the work (Mapping)
– How to, a new way of thinking
– Open Sources
– Where we can get our information, data, records
– Interviewing Methods
– Getting the right answers, asking the good questions
– Writing the work (master file composition, editing, quality control)
– Fact checking, the missing parts, editing the story
– Hands on student participation and suggestions
– Ideas
– Headlines
– Cases
– Things to work on
– Examples
– How it can be done
– Working on an example, showing how an investigative story can be done.

Cost
$350

For more information or to make a reservation
03.007.551

Daoud IbrahimProfile:Media instructor at Lebanese universities. Trainer with many Arabic and Intl orgs, Former editor at Asharq Al Awsat newspaper, Freelancer editor reporter photographer. Had my time with TVs and newspapers reporters on skills and ethics. Winner of the “Peace Journalism Award” by UNDP & AFP Foundation.I believe I can help to reach a better media in our world.