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Writing a News Story Training Kit

  • 1 day
  • 2 sessions
  • 120 min / session
  • 4 hours in total
  • Intermediate level
  • Arabic

Description

The media has witnessed rapid developments in communication and information transfer techniques over the past decades, and the spread of the internet has contributed to making multiple sources of news and information available, along with the speed of accessing and publishing them to a wide audience. Preparing journalistic content has come to require precise skills in gathering information, verifying it and formulating it clearly and appropriately for the audience.

The kit addresses the concept of journalistic editing as a process that combines gathering information from its various sources, verifying its accuracy, and then formulating it in simple, clear language within the appropriate journalistic templates. It also explains the foundations of reviewing journalistic text, correcting errors, observing the specified space, and achieving clarity and objectivity in a way that contributes to presenting accurate and reliable news and information.

Objectives

  • Identifying the concept of journalistic editing and its importance in preparing news content.
  • Gathering journalistic information from various sources and verifying its accuracy and reliability.
  • Formulating news in clear, simplified language suited to the nature of the target audience.
  • Applying the foundations of reviewing journalistic texts and correcting errors and inaccurate information.
  • Preparing a journalistic text that observes objectivity, clarity, the template and the specified space.

Who it's for

Journalists and editors, media and public relations staff, and media students.

Training sessions

  • Introductions and programme opening
  • Training video
  • Key concepts
  • Goals of news editing
  • News editing processes
  • Forms of journalistic writing
  • Training activity
  • Features of online newspapers
  • Roles of communication technology in online news editing
  • Stages of preparing content for an online newspaper
  • Editing skills for online newspapers

Version 1 — updated 16 October 2026

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Frequently asked questions

Journalists and editors, media and public relations staff, and media students.

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