Africa Media’s environmental and travel journalism syllabus is based on a combination of tutored workshops and practical expeditions to explore, research and writes of articles for publication on local and international media platforms
Intro to journalism and journalistic writing styles
Narrative writing workshop and assessment
Guided edits and personalised learning system creation
Intro to ethics, standards and practices
This week involves an expedition to the Point area of Mossel Bay
Week 2: Putting practices into practice
Tutorial: Rewriting and Editing
Guided and self-guided edits of previous submissions
Tutorial: Interviewing techniques – what are they?
Research – conduct research on two individuals and prep for mock interview.
Practical – Writing and submission of Interview 1 + 2
Week 3: Becoming a journalist
Tutorial: Travel Writing
Research – conduct research on specific upcoming expeditions
Expeditions- This week involves a number of different expeditions and a lot of travel writing and blogging
Practical – Writing, submission and editing of articles 1 – 7
Week 4: What Africa has shown me
Tutorial: Environmental Journalism
Research and prep for final piece
Self led interviews and source finding
Practical – Writing, submission and editing of EVJ piece
EXPEDITIONS
The garden route region of South Africa is widely renowned for its diversity of reserves, sanctuaries tourism attractions and research institutes. Expeditions will travel to different venues to allow you to visit the organisations upon which your stories are based. Specific regions that we may investigate for stories include:
