Free Course
The 5 C's of writing news for mobile audiences
By Linda Austin | Reynolds Journalism Institute
17 Lessons
Course author
Linda Austin | Reynolds Journalism Institute
Linda Austin is a rare hybrid of award-winning top editor and inspirational educator who is schooled in instructional design and experienced in developing e-learning, training and curriculum. She created this course as a Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow at the University of Missouri.
Mobile first training
Gamified experience
Editable content
Course overview
In five-minute lessons, learn how to be conversational, considerate, concise, contextual and chunky – even if you've never written for mobile before.
The full course includes
- Be conversational
- Be considerate: PYIRP tip 1
- Be concise: PYIRP tips 4-5
- Be contextual
- Be chunky
- Final review
- Test
- Write a conversational headline for this debt story
- Write a conversational headline for this insurance story
- Rewrite this headline to tell people why this story is about them
- Be considerate: PYIRP tips 2-3
- Rewrite this headline to prompt a reaction
- Rewrite this headline in up to 55 characters
- Quick review: Be considerate and Be concise
- Rewrite this headline to be more contextual
- After-course survey
- How could you chunk this story?