Advanced Training Course in Science Journalism 1.0

Hi,

Welcome to the Advanced Training Course in Science Journalism, the only course that you need to learn for the science journalism.

This course will be conducted in collaboration with Medgenera, a leading global healthcare news and resources publishing company, Pankaj Mishra, the CEO and founder of Medgenera, and Tiash Saha, a known healthcare science journalist and the former in-house editor of Medgenera.

We have started Medgenera in the early 2016 and since then we have published several thousand articles, created many feature story, interviewed several key leaders of the healthcare industry and made rewarding content promotion strategies in the cost-effective manners.

Of the last few years, we have helped hundreds and hundreds of people learned how to communicate science and change their career through the in-person training as intern healthcare journalist. 89% of our interns went on to receive full-time journalist and content-writer jobs within the healthcare and biotech industry and several pursued the higher education.

We harness these skills to create this class which is the online equivalent of our in-house training. In this class, we are going to share our practical learning experiences with you. We are going to give you a step-by-step guide to becoming a trained science journalist. And most importantly, you’ll learn how to effectively communicate science to a wider audience.

We will mostly focus on the healthcare industry as that is our best expertise.

While this course is going to help you in upgrading your resume with the much-in-demand certificate in science journalism, we expect that this course will give you a lot more practical learning exposures that you can directly apply to advance your career in the content and media industry. This course is also good if you would like to improve your communication and writing skills.

Throughout the course, you will be finishing the quizzes and assignments and will be able to track your learning progresses. Upon successful completion of the course, you will be rewarded with a certificate.

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Course Curriculum

The overall course is divided into 9 modules:

 In Module 1, you’ll get introduced to science journalism and why it is different than other journalism areas. In the same module, you’ll learn about the differences between a science writer and a science journalist and also the essentials of science journalism.

 In Module 2, You will look onto “how to spot and create a Good Science News Story” and in Module 3, you will be practicing “how to create a feature story.”

 In Module 4, you will learn about the interview techniques.

 In Module 5, we will demonstrate how one can gently handle the controversial science topics
 Every journalist or writer once dreams of pitching their write up to the big global media platforms such as BBC, Wall Street Journals, Forbes, etc. We expect that eventually and hopefully, you will also have the desire to pitch your story to an editor. So in Module 6, we will learn about the pitching strategies and also about the editorial process.

 In Module 7, you will learn about the different but effective strategies to promote your content

 In Module 8, you will get the demonstration of the content management system and how to publish it online. It is really important that together with the theory that you are going learn in Module 1 to 7, you should also prepare yourself by gaining the experience on how to publish online and instantly connect to your desired audience.

 In Module 9, you will get the final assignments that will help you to assess your overall learning and also gives you an opportunity to create a compelling story that you can pitch to the online media platforms such as Medgenera or others.

Throughout the course, there will be many small assignments, quizzes, and real-world case studies. We hope that it will help you assess your learning progress.

Upon successful completion of the course, you will earn a certificate of completion from Medgenera that will certify that you undertook the advanced training course in science journalism.