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Hi, my name is Kirsty and I’ve just started the Community Reporters course hoping it will help me on my journey towards becoming a more accomplished writer. I’ve wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember, starting way back in the mists of time as
Right, so I started the Community Reporters course today … Which is great, right? No, it definitely is! The first session (which is happening right now) is … interesting! I woke up to an email from my oh so lovely manager and attached to it was the info for
Last night we started a new Community Reporters Course. Over the coming weeks we will teach our students how to write a better news story, how to take a better photograph, the art of headline writing, the use of social media and more. The course is very hands on,
South Leeds Life is launching its third Community Reporters Course for residents in South Leeds. During the ten week course you will learn everything you need to know to start reporting for South Leeds Life, including: Writing a news story Writing headlines Taking better photos Using video and audio
So here we sit, me and my fellow community reporters writing stories for your amusement and bemusement and I wonder which part of our story we are at. It is an end. The last session in our introductory course during which we have been expertly led by John Baron and
The Community Reporters course was a very good course to do, I got to know a lot and it was very enjoyable. I thought the people were very nice and helped me so much. It was nice to go to the park to take photos. I enjoyed talking to some
So we had a bit of a road trip from South Leeds Towers this week. Dave, John and I trekked over to Manchester in search of glory (or at least a certificate). As I reported yesterday we came back empty handed from the Blog North Awards, but it was a
Your South Leeds Life is making it easier than ever before to contribute to our blog! You may have noticed that more and more South Leeds residents are contributing articles and reports to this blog – which is great, this is YOUR blog and it’s open to all who wish
We got together today to review South Leeds Life. You’ve probably noticed from the list of contributors that this is a collaborative blog and we would love to have even more collaborators! A couple of new people joined the discussion this morning which was great. It was noticeable that they
South Leeds Life is a collaborative blog. Eight of us, some linked to organisations, some not, got together last November to start writing about South Leeds. We get together every month or so to see how it’s going, share ideas, ask questions and generally see how we can improve things.