Basic sub-editing

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Basic sub-editing

This four-day course is designed to provide a practical overview of the basic role and responsibilities of the text sub-editor.

This course is designed to provide a practical overview of the basic role and responsibilities of the text sub-editor. It is aimed at working journalists with at least one-year's experience of a newsroom or publishing environment. The course assumes familiarity with basic newsroom processes and practices.

Basic sub-editing aims to support participants working or intending to work in a supervised sub-editing team. It will assist them to:

Understand the role and responsibilities of a sub-editor
Develop a speedy and appropriate strategy for sub-editing a text
Make use of style guides
Edit text for grammar, spelling, syntax, accuracy and style;
Take note of possible legal and ethical problems.
Write better headlines and captions.

NB: Applicants seeking to develop layout and design skills should note that these are not covered by this course.

Venue

Date: 06 May 2008 to 09 May 2008
Location: To confirm, Cape Town

Contact: Mabatho Sexwala
Company name: Institute for the Advancement of Journalism
Telephone number: 27 11 4841765
Email address print@iaj.org.za