Freelance/Student £140
Members £115
*Tickets include a light lunch
NGOs and journalists often have to operate in challenging contexts and with difficult subject matter. Producing quality material whilst maintaining levels of professionalism and sensitivity can be hard. There is increasing pressure on NGO’s and story gatherers to bring back “thumb stopping content” but at what cost? This course will examine mistakes NGO’s have made, look at ethics around story gathering and current trends in digital content that can help you maximise your audience.
What you will cover:
- Producing stories in conflict zones and challenging environments
- Maintaining ethical standards while producing stories with impact
- How to avoid “Poverty Porn” – Common pitfalls NGO’s make when creating content (the Rusty Radiator Awards)
- Organising productions in challenging contexts and balancing field staff versus production staff
- How to create powerful content yet balance against ethical standards
- Working in groups on specific scenarios and discuss best practice
- Examining the differing trends in digital content and how this is influencing the types of content gathered
Note – this is not a hostile environment course.
About the trainer – Nadene Ghouri
Arete is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference. Nadene Ghouri is an award-winning investigative journalist and a key member of the Arete team, with two decades of global experience producing news, current affairs, documentary investigations and features. She has been a staff reporter/producer for the BBC and Al Jazeera English. She is a two-time finalist for Broadcast Journalist of the Year, Popular Features and Best Television Documentary at the One World Media Awards and a former winner of the Amnesty Media Awards (Best Radio Investigation). Ghouri is also a winner of the Human Trafficking Foundation Media Awards (Best National Newspaper Investigation) and the Ethnic Minority Media Awards (Best Broadcast Journalist and Best Documentary). Ghouri is a highly experienced international media trainer and consultant, with a particular focus on storytelling training and strategic communications.
Freelance/Student £140
Members £115
*The tickets include a light lunch
In an increasingly competitive media marketplace, gaining maximum coverage for the issues that matter is key to making sure your stories make a difference. Learn why editors reject or select humanitarian and NGO stories and how to avoid the classic pitfalls. This course will show you how to produce fantastic visually led pitches using the right platforms to ensure maximum coverage and compliments the storytelling courses held in January and March.
What you will cover:
- How to tell visual stories that sell in well,
- Pitching photo stories to the media,
- The relationship between media and photography,
- Understanding what the media wants,
- Understanding what the media doesn’t want (what not to do),
- The role of wire services like AP, Reuters, AFP, and EPA,
- How to file photographs as press handouts to the wires,
- Using web platforms and social media effectively for dissemination photography.
What to bring:
- Laptop to take notes,
- At least two story ideas.
About the trainer – Nadene Ghouri
Arete is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference. Nadene Ghouri is an award-winning investigative journalist and a key member of the Arete team, with two decades of global experience producing news, current affairs, documentary investigations and features. She has been a staff reporter/producer for the BBC and Al Jazeera English. She is a two-time finalist for Broadcast Journalist of the Year, Popular Features and Best Television Documentary at the One World Media Awards and a former winner of the Amnesty Media Awards (Best Radio Investigation). Ghouri is also a winner of the Human Trafficking Foundation Media Awards (Best National Newspaper Investigation) and the Ethnic Minority Media Awards (Best Broadcast Journalist and Best Documentary). Ghouri is a highly experienced international media trainer and consultant, with a particular focus on storytelling training and strategic communications.
Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
In an increasingly competitive media marketplace, gaining maximum coverage for the issues that matter is key to making sure your stories make a difference. Learn why editors reject or select humanitarian and NGO stories and how to avoid the classic pitfalls. This course will show you how to produce fantastic visually led pitches using the right platforms to ensure maximum coverage and compliments the storytelling courses held in January and March.
What you will cover:
- How to tell visual stories that sell in well,
- Pitching photo stories to the media,
- The relationship between media and photography,
- Understanding what the media wants,
- Understanding what the media doesn’t want (what not to do),
- The role of wire services like AP, Reuters, AFP, and EPA,
- How to file photographs as press handouts to the wires,
- Using web platforms and social media effectively for dissemination photography.
What to bring:
- Laptop to take notes,
- At least two story ideas.
About the trainer – Nadene Ghouri
Arete is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference. Nadene Ghouri is an award-winning investigative journalist and a key member of the Arete team, with two decades of global experience producing news, current affairs, documentary investigations and features. She has been a staff reporter/producer for the BBC and Al Jazeera English. She is a two-time finalist for Broadcast Journalist of the Year, Popular Features and Best Television Documentary at the One World Media Awards and a former winner of the Amnesty Media Awards (Best Radio Investigation). Ghouri is also a winner of the Human Trafficking Foundation Media Awards (Best National Newspaper Investigation) and the Ethnic Minority Media Awards (Best Broadcast Journalist and Best Documentary). Ghouri is a highly experienced international media trainer and consultant, with a particular focus on storytelling training and strategic communications.
As guest speakers we’ll have Zing Tsjeng Editor at VICE and Jonathan Paterson Digital Editor at BBC who will be sharing their experience on pitching and what they expect from a good story.
This workshop is part of a series being run in partnership with Arete. To find out more about their other workshops, click here.
]]>Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
NGOs and journalists often have to operate in challenging or hostile contexts. Producing quality material whilst maintaining levels of professionalism and sensitivity can be hard. This course will help you navigate through the complexities and give you the confidence you need to bring back a story safely and sensitively.
What you will cover:
- Producing stories in conflict zones and challenging environments,
- Organising productions in challenging contexts,
- Balancing the needs of field staff and production projects,
- How to brief a commissioned photographer/ videographer on behalf of an NGO to ensure maximum benefit of commission,
- What men need to know,
- What women need to know,
- How to research your location and minimise risk.
Note – this is not a hostile environment course.
What to bring:
- Laptop to take notes,
- At least two story ideas.
About the trainer – Nadene Ghouri
Arete is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference. Nadene Ghouri is an award-winning investigative journalist and a key member of the Arete team, with two decades of global experience producing news, current affairs, documentary investigations and features. She has been a staff reporter/producer for the BBC and Al Jazeera English. She is a two-time finalist for Broadcast Journalist of the Year, Popular Features and Best Television Documentary at the One World Media Awards and a former winner of the Amnesty Media Awards (Best Radio Investigation). Ghouri is also a winner of the Human Trafficking Foundation Media Awards (Best National Newspaper Investigation) and the Ethnic Minority Media Awards (Best Broadcast Journalist and Best Documentary). Ghouri is a highly experienced international media trainer and consultant, with a particular focus on storytelling training and strategic communications.
This workshop is part of a series being run in partnership with Arete. To find out more about their other workshops, click here.
]]>Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
This one-day workshop will teach you how to tell humanitarian stories through photographs for media, NGOs, charities and corporate social responsibility programmes. This is a hands-on photography experience and we encourage interpretation and creativity no matter what type of camera you use.
What you will cover:
- An introduction to Adobe Bridge (an archiving and captioning program) and Adobe Photoshop (for retouching images),
- How to caption and send an image ready for editorial use; size, resolution and format,
- We will talk through five images from each participant and discuss how they could be improved,
- Using examples, we will look at composition and use of light,
- Participants will be asked to shoot a short photo story based on what you’ve learnt. This will take between one and two hours. You will then download all images with captions and, with the trainer’s help, edit your photos into a short story which will be presented and critiqued by the group
What to bring:
- Five photographs for discussion,
- A digital camera (quality and size not important) or smart phone with camera,
- A laptop if possible,
- Adobe Bridge and Adobe Photoshop (CS5) will be used for the training – if participants have this on their laptops already it would be good to bring along.
About the trainer – Kate Holt
Arete is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference. The agency was founded by Kate Holt, a photographer and journalist. Holt trained at the BBC before gaining her first field experience in Kosovo photographing the unfolding refugee crisis in 1999. Since then she has travelled extensively documenting refugees and the effects of war and poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti. Holt and her team have worked with numerous NGOs and UN agencies including UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO, WFP, MSF, ICRC and Oxfam. She is a regular contributor to both the BBC and the Guardian.
Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
NGOs and journalists often have to operate in challenging or hostile contexts. Producing quality material whilst maintaining levels of professionalism and sensitivity can be hard. This course will help you navigate through the complexities and give you the confidence you need to bring back a story safely and sensitively.
What you will cover:
- Producing stories in conflict zones and challenging environments,
- Organising productions in challenging contexts,
- Balancing the needs of field staff and production projects,
- How to brief a commissioned photographer/ videographer on behalf of an NGO to ensure maximum benefit of commission,
- What men need to know,
- What women need to know,
- How to research your location and minimise risk.
Note – this is not a hostile environment course.
What to bring:
- Laptop to take notes,
- At least two story ideas.
About the trainer – Nadene Ghouri
Arete Stories is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference. Nadene Ghouri is an award-winning investigative journalist and a key member of the Arete Stories team, with two decades of global experience producing news, current affairs, documentary investigations and features. She has been a staff reporter/producer for the BBC and Al Jazeera English. She is a two-time finalist for Broadcast Journalist of the Year, Popular Features and Best Television Documentary at the One World Media Awards and a former winner of the Amnesty Media Awards (Best Radio Investigation). Ghouri is also a winner of the Human Trafficking Foundation Media Awards (Best National Newspaper Investigation) and the Ethnic Minority Media Awards (Best Broadcast Journalist and Best Documentary). Ghouri is a highly experienced international media trainer and consultant, with a particular focus on storytelling training and strategic communications.
This workshop is part of a series being run in partnership with Arete Stories. To find out more about their other workshops, click here.
]]>Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
In an increasingly competitive media marketplace, gaining maximum coverage for the issues that matter is key to making sure your stories make a difference. Learn why editors reject or select humanitarian and NGO stories and how to avoid the classic pitfalls. This course will show you how to produce fantastic visually led pitches using the right platforms to ensure maximum coverage and compliments the storytelling courses held in March and April.
What you will cover:
- How to tell visual stories that sell in well,
- Pitching photo stories to the media,
- The relationship between media and photography,
- Understanding what the media wants,
- Understanding what the media doesn’t want (what not to do),
- The role of wire services like AP, Reuters, AFP, and EPA,
- How to file photographs as press handouts to the wires,
- Using web platforms and social media effectively for dissemination photography.
What to bring:
- Laptop to take notes,
- At least two story ideas.
About the trainer – Nadene Ghouri
Arete Stories is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference. Nadene Ghouri is an award-winning investigative journalist and a key member of the Arete Stories team, with two decades of global experience producing news, current affairs, documentary investigations and features. She has been a staff reporter/producer for the BBC and Al Jazeera English. She is a two-time finalist for Broadcast Journalist of the Year, Popular Features and Best Television Documentary at the One World Media Awards and a former winner of the Amnesty Media Awards (Best Radio Investigation). Ghouri is also a winner of the Human Trafficking Foundation Media Awards (Best National Newspaper Investigation) and the Ethnic Minority Media Awards (Best Broadcast Journalist and Best Documentary). Ghouri is a highly experienced international media trainer and consultant, with a particular focus on storytelling training and strategic communications.
As a guest speaker, The Guardian’s global development editor Lucy Lamble, will talk about what Guardian Development team are looking for when it comes to a strong pitch.
This workshop is part of a series being run in partnership with Arete Stories. To find out more about their other workshops, click here.
]]>Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
This one-day workshop will teach you how to tell powerful stories through video and multimedia. You will learn to create an effective video strategy and how to work with professional video producers and teams. We will go over common pitfalls, learn the relevant theory and lingo, and cover practical topics including how to write a creative brief, how to coordinate bigger productions, and how to use web platforms and social media effectively.
What you will cover:
- How to tell humanitarian stories through video and multimedia for media, NGOs and charities,
- Techniques to tell more powerful stories using audio recordings, music and graphics,
- Strategy and theory,
- Shooting and editing,
- Working with video producers and teams,
- Coordinating productions.
Note – because of limited time this is very much a theoretical introduction to video making.
What to bring:
- Laptop to take notes.
About the trainer – Lauren Groenewald
Arete Stories is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference.
Lauren Groenewald started her career in broadcast journalism in 1991 as a radio producer for Channel Africa. She moved from news journalism into documentary film, which is now the primary focus of her work. Her Cape Town based company Plexus Films has produced content for SABC, Al Jazeera, PBS International and TV2 in Norway. She has produced broadcast as well as short films for NGO’s such as Equal Education and various civil rights organisations. Her work often comments on humanitarian issues – the 2008 Xenophobia in South Africa resulted in the short film CONGO MY FOOT which was part of the the Filmmakers Against Racism collective. She has filmed and worked all over the African continent from Mauritania, Ethiopia to Rwanda, Senegal,Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Lauren has been Chair of the Documentary Filmmakers Association in South Africa. She is also a mentor and tutor at the Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking and has acted as Producer for the Close Encounters Laboratory associated with the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival.
This workshop is part of a series being run in partnership with Arete Stories. To find out more about their other workshops, click here.
]]>Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
This one-day workshop will teach you how to tell humanitarian stories through photographs for media, NGOs, charities and corporate social responsibility programmes. This is a hands-on photography experience and we encourage interpretation and creativity no matter what type of camera you use.
What you will cover:
- An introduction to Adobe Bridge (an archiving and captioning program) and Adobe Photoshop (for retouching images),
- How to caption and send an image ready for editorial use; size, resolution and format,
- We will talk through five images from each participant and discuss how they could be improved,
- Using examples, we will look at composition and use of light,
- Participants will be asked to shoot a short photo story based on what you’ve learnt. This will take between one and two hours. You will then download all images with captions and, with the trainer’s help, edit your photos into a short story which will be presented and critiqued by the group
What to bring:
- Five photographs for discussion,
- A digital camera (quality and size not important) or smart phone with camera,
- A laptop if possible,
- Adobe Bridge and Adobe Photoshop (CS5) will be used for the training – if participants have this on their laptops already it would be good to bring along.
About the trainer – Kate Holt
Arete Stories is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference. The agency was founded by Kate Holt, a photographer and journalist. Holt trained at the BBC before gaining her first field experience in Kosovo photographing the unfolding refugee crisis in 1999. Since then she has travelled extensively documenting refugees and the effects of war and poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti. Holt and her team have worked with numerous NGOs and UN agencies including UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO, WFP, MSF, ICRC and Oxfam. She is a regular contributor to both the BBC and the Guardian.
This workshop is part of a series being run in partnership with Arete Stories. To find out more about their other workshops, click here.
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