WORKSHOP: Media Skills Workshop

Two-Day Media Skills Workshop

9am to 5pm on December 4 & 11, 2009

The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA

Have you ever wondered… What makes a media friendly story? Why doesn’t the story look like the information I provided? Why do I feel at the media’s mercy?

This two-day Media Skills Workshop will help you: increase your confidence in working with the media, understand factors affecting successful media outcomes and define your message.

During this Media Skills Workshop you will: learn how to prepare yourself for interviews, be interviewed on your topic by an experienced journalist, receive extensive feedback from an experienced journalist, use the feedback in subsequent workshop interviews and receive a record of your interviews.

Contributors to previous workshops include: Geraldine Mellet (radio and television broadcaster), Babs McHugh (ABC Rural - resources reporter), Miriam Borthwick (television news and current affairs journalist and media consultant), Janine MacDonald (print journalist and UWA media manager) and Danielle Barrass (ABC radio).

Maximum workshop size is 12 participants.

Cost for two-day workshop is $600 +GST and includes tuition, materials, morning and afternoon tea, lunches and CD of interviews.