BY MARK GATELY and NICK BENNETT
The annual Reconciliation Week is fast approaching and provides us with a wonderful opportunity to both create meaningful content and find out more about ourselves and our fellow Australians.
Reconciliation is about reaching out, informing and connecting. Who better to do that than us?
Continue reading “Week 11 (7/5): Tackling the big issues”
Headlines are more important than ever.
Historically, headlines have performed the role of a story’s calling card (or, more bluntly, its needy plea for attention) but these days they are pretty much all that stands between your story going viral and languishing as a wilting digital wallflower, unclicked and unloved.
Often this success can come at a depressing price.
Continue reading “Week 10: Whose (head)line is it anyway?”
BY MARK GATELY
Professional story presentation
Submitting a news story for a News Conference assessment is exactly the same as submitting a story for a newspaper or website – only the format will change.
Continue reading “Week 9 (23/4): The write stuff”
BY MARK GATELY
If there’s one thing we’ve learned in News Conference, it’s that coming up with story ideas from scratch can be really hard.
But the good news is that the news doesn’t always have to come to you – sometimes you can make it happen!
Continue reading “Week 7 (26/3): Generating a story – there’s an app for that”
BY MARK GATELY
Working remotely in media
Media makers have successfully worked remotely for 20+ years.
If you love story-telling and travel, one of the ultimate jobs is to be a reporter, filing from unique locations like Arnhem Land, Denmark, London, Berlin, Tamworth … name checking like you’re reading from the back of a Faberge Brut 33 bottle. (OK, Tamworth may be a stretch!)
Continue reading “Week 6 (19/3): Working remotely in the media”