Become a WLD community reporter on our new course

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One of my greatest pleasures as editor over the last eight-an-a-half years has been to run community reporter training courses.

For those of you who don't know, we run the courses to train local people the basics to be able to write articles & headlines, find stories, interview people, take photos, stay safe legally, shoot video and run a podcast (among others).

If you’d like to get more involved in what’s going on locally, our free course is right up your street.

The friendly and informal course runs over six sessions and offers a friendly and fun introduction to journalism. We can even help with spelling and grammar!

Our free course is aimed at beginners interested in telling the story of their community and runs over six, two-hour sessions. And it looks great on your CV as you will learn transferable skills you can take into employment or studying. We hope you’ll go on to contribute many articles for us!

At the end of it, you’ll become part of the Dispatch family of community reporters and earn a community correspondents’ ‘press card’, as well as gain increased skills and confidence.

Our next free course is running at Sunny Bank Mills in Farsley, from Thursday, October 19 for six sessions, finishing on 23 November 2023, 7pm-9pm.

Free tickets can be booked here. (Si apre in una nuova finestra)