Elections Reporting

Make sure your elections stories stay ahead of the curb, by learning to:
• Understand the electoral system in South Africa;
• The background of the main political parties (and some small, but significant ones);
• Develop a personal reporting strategy for the elections;
• Understand news media's role during elections;
• Contextualise service delivery protests and electoral democracy;
• Use geo-mapping technology and tools for great elections coverage;
• Plan for diary events;
1. Pre-election
2. Polling day
3. Follow up
• Get news from all parts of the country;
• Find the elections stories that really speak to readers;
• Use social media to find and share elections stories;
• See beyond the politics of the elections; and,
• Ethics and the elections.

After this course, participants will be equipped with a clear strategy of how they will cover the elections.

Who should attend:
This workshop is designed for mainstream and beat journalists and is a core (basic) level course.

About the expert trainer:
A newspaper and multimedia journalist and author of 40 years experience. Graeme Addison has worked and trained journalists in dailies, weeklies, online magazines and radio broadcasting, and was also professor and head of a university department of communication in the mid-1990s. He has been involved in several projects to do with newspapers and community radio stations in Southern Africa, as well as research into digital media in Africa, and workshops on feature journalism.
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Date: 19 February 2014 to 21 February 2014
Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Venue: Institute for the Advancement of Journalism, Johannesburg

More info:

Institute for the Advancement of Journalism
1 Richmond Forum, Cedar Avenue, Richmond