Journalist’s Workshop….in progress

Here we are, at last, at the first day of the workshop. Zack has installed the software on the computers, located in the Varana Rotary Club multimedia room, and we did the last tests with the video projector. I decided that we can compensate the small number of computers with some laptops making it better for all.

The participants are students from high schools all over the county and even from Râmnicu Sărat (Spiru Haret Pedagogic High school, Al.I.Cuza NC, Economic National College, Unirea NC, Technical High school “Ion Mincu”, Technical High school “Valeriu D. Cotea”, School Group Dumitrești, Theoretic High school "Stephen the Great"- Râmnicul Sărat), students and MA’s at journalism and other domains in the country (University of Bucharest – Sociology and Social Assistance, University of Bucharest – The Geography Faculty, University of Iași - Marketing and Communication in Business, University of Bucharest - AS, the College of Law French-Romanian –Bucharest, Nicolae Titulescu University - Bucharest) and abroad (University of Journalism, Westminster, London).

 “The available seats were occupied on the first two days of registration. Because there were and there are still a lot of solicitants, I opened a new list for a workshop which will take place during the vacation at the beginning of February. I talked with Zack about the possibility of redoing the workshop and he approved. Already there are ten people registered on the new list. There are still 20 places left. The principle is the same – first come, first served, because Zack is very strict regarding the number of seats and participants at the workshop. Anyway, we were expecting this kind of success and the great number of solicitants” (Anamaria Cătănoiu - coordinator of the The Foreign Language Center of Vrancea County Library)

The program for the two days of workshop is very generous and….full.

Newspaper Workshop- schedule

Day 1
09:00- Introduction and Ideas
10:00 - Break
10:10 – How to Interview
10:50 – Break
11:00 – Writing News Event Articles
11:50 – Lunch
13:20 – Writing Feature Articles
14:15 – Break
14:25 – Writing Opinion/Monthly Columns
14:50 – Break
15:00 - Practice Writing
16:00 – Day 1 Completed

Day 2
09:00 – Article Editing
10:00 - Break
10:10 - Photography
10:50 – Break
11:00 – Photo Practice
11:30 – Lunch
13:00 – Layout
14:00 – Break
14:10 – Photo Editing/Layout Practice
15:10 – Break
15:20 – Planning Your Newspaper
16:00 – Workshop completed

We are waiting for impressions from the participants after the two days of work …and the professor’s opinion on his trainees.

See you soon with pictures!

Article written by Anamaria Cătănoiu - coordinator of the the Foreign Language Center

Translated by Constantin Drăgoi - volunteer