The third free-of-charge Grocott’s Mail Citizen Journalism course runs from Monday 22 February to Thursday 01 April 2010, in the Grocott's Mail Citizen Journalism Newsroom. Applications for this course closed on 15 February 2010. For details of the fourth course, please return to this page periodically or email course co-ordinator Elvira van Noort on elviravannoort@gmail.com.

Course outline:

Week 1: What is Grocott’s Mail about? What is a citizen reporter?
Week 2: A nose for news: what is newsworthy? Basics of good journalism.
Week 3: Writing a publishable news story: the lead and story structures.
Week 4: Interviews, observation, sources, facts and ethics.
Week 5: Photography: how to take better photos with your cellphone. Introduction to basic photo editing.
Week 6: Producing citizen journalism.

Read citizen journalism (and submit your own!) in the MyStory section.