Spokesperson Training

Spokesperson Training


[ We teach spokespersons to answer media questions with clarity, confidence and credibility so that journalists retain positive key messages in their stories ]

Prerequisites:
  
  • Organization of information, key messages
    (practical work on the participant's personal files)

  • Answer journalists' questions
    • By email
    • On the phone
    • In person (with microphone or camera)
  • Preparation for oral communication, relaxation

  • Negotiating the interview with the journalist

  • Knowledge of the medium and its audience (readership)

  • Interview technique
    • Rhetoric
    • Preparation - general
    • How to avoid pitfalls
    • Develop good reflexes
    • Stay on favorable ground
    • Ideal state of mind - spirit of initiative

  • Different types of encounters with the media
    Radio - television - written press - Web
    • Live or pre-recorded
    • In the studio, on site, by video conference, on the phone

    • News interviews
    • Public affairs interviews
    • On-the-fly interviews (scrum)
    • Open lines

    • New post-covid ways of doing things

    (Realistic radio and television recording exercises on each participant's personal records)

  • Importance of following up
    • Call log (media, journalist, subject, broadcast time, etc.)
    • Reading, viewing, listening to broadcast/published topics
      (newspapers, websites (very important), television, radios)
    • Possible corrections, letter to the editor, etc.

(Theoretical presentations - discussions - analysis)

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