Internal courses and training Workshop: Find the news potential in your research and write for The Conversation

The Conversation is a politically unaffiliated international online platform for journalistic popular science articles. The platform is based on the principle that academic researchers write their own news articles, stories and analyses within their own fields of expertise – with the help of The Conversation’s own professional journalists and editors. Since January 2021, KI has a collaboration with The Conversation that also includes training sessions.

The interactive workshop is aimed at researchers who want to improve their ability to see the news potential of their expertise and to write short, quality pitches in English that can be turned into promising stories. There will also be an introduction to what The Conversation is and what this news platform can offer KI's researchers. The workshop is led by one of their editors and will be held in English at KI Campus Solna. You also have the chance to sign up for a 15 minute one-to-one session with an editor at The Conversation to discuss your research/expertise, find potential topics of interest and identify angles you may have missed. The one-to-ones will be held after the workshop at 11:30-12:30.

Registration

Please register for the workshop via KI’s communications office at the-conversation@ki.se and let us know if you are also interested in a short one-to-one session. Please also include a short description of your expertise, what topics you are interested in writing about and contact information.

The workshop covers:

• What The Conversation is, its origins and aims, what they do and why
• How editors work with academics, the lifecycle of a story
• Audience and engagement, potential benefits for academics and universities
• How to find ideas or angles for stories, the news value of expertise
• How to pitch story ideas to editors
• The journalistic approach to writing
• Workshop for story ideas with editor feedback and discussion