Past Workshops

In the fast-paced evolution of digital journalism, it is essential to get to grips with the social media landscape around you. Pioneering website editor Jon Bernstein will lead a day-long workshop to teach you how to get the most out of your online tools.

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The social fabric of cyberspace is as important as the physical world. From commerce to sex, every interaction is mirrored online. Traditional media feel left behind by bloggers, social media, and the race into cyberspace – but that race has just begun. The next-generation news organisation will be agile and smart. It will apply the trusted techniques of traditional journalism to the online world. Speed is just as important as accuracy – and both can be won.

The SecDev training programme considers how journalism has changed, and offers solutions for media professionals to break the news without compromising credibility and integrity in a real-time digital age.

Whether researching human rights abuses in a civil war, or exposing human trafficking in the sex trade, this one-day workshop will introduce you to the life of investigative reporting.

FCP X works with new paradigms from tapeless workflows. This two-day workshop will take you through this revolutionary new way of editing video from start to finish.

Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.

Join us for an intensive two-day introduction to video journalism. You will learn the essential skills needed to film and edit your own material to a broadcast standard. Using your own camera and editing equipment, we will guide you through the very best techniques for storytelling for television and video.

This one-day workshop will inspire participants to think about storytelling from an editor’s perspective. It is designed to help you confidently make decisions in order to create a concise and powerful digital narrative. We will look at theoretical approaches and how to apply practical tips and tricks.

This one-day workshop will teach you how to make the most of lighting interviews, pieces to camera and talking heads. It is aimed at journalists, self-shooting producers and other filmmakers shooting on DSLRs or small cameras.

Improve your audio for podcast, film and video productions. This one-day workshop will teach you about recording, editing and filtering methods, as well as audio principals that can be applied across nearly all sound editing systems and recorders.

FCP X works with new paradigms from tapeless workflows. This two-day workshop will take you through this revolutionary new way of editing video from start to finish.

This one-day workshop acts as a refresher, to update delegates on new areas of media law. It also serves as an introduction to media law for those with little or no experience in this field. It focuses on the law as it applies to online publication and social media, illustrated by the latest cases.

In the fast-paced evolution of digital journalism, it is essential to get to grips with the social media landscape around you. Pioneering website editor Jon Bernstein will lead a day-long workshop to teach you how to get the most out of your online tools.

Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television packaging through to the most sophisticated techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.

Photographer Rob Hornstra and writer and filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen have been working on The Sochi Project since 2009, documenting the development of the wider Caucasus region ahead of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. In this workshop they will guide you through production and publishing, teaching you how to survive in the ‘everything for free’ age, how to set up the project – allowing you to create and publish the stories the way you want, in your own voice, and to see opportunities and make your future.

Combining theoretical elements, practical exercises and a bespoke online learning resource, this two-day workshop seeks to give you tangible data analysis skills that can be immediately applied to your journalism.

We are joining forces with the Frontline Freelance Register and Rory Peck Trust to bring you a live online stream of safety tips and risk assessment. Three succinct online panel discussions will address the issues and answer questions about preparing freelancers for working in hostile environments. Post your questions to #safetystream now.

From pitching to an editor or presenting to an audience, to interviewing key witnesses and getting in front of the camera, speaking well in public is a necessary skill to help you tell your stories. This one-day workshop will cover some of the main stumbling blocks associated with speaking effectively in public. These include relaxation, voice projection, effective use of pauses, owning the text and good and open body language.

The Frontline Club will be hosting the first RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues) training course in the UK. The four-days of training will end with a Group Show that is open to everyone on Wednesday 9 October at 7pm, to register to attend see HERE.

Everyone needs to write well today. Whether you’re a freelance photographer or a corporate CEO, your clients and your community want to know what you think – and with the advent of social media, they expect you to say it clearly, succinctly and often.

FCP X works with new paradigms from tapeless workflows. This two-day workshop will take you through this revolutionary new way of editing video from start to finish.