This is a free five-week course which takes place in the Grocott’s Mail Citizen Journalism Newsroom at 40 High Street, Grahamstown. This popular course has been designed to give you the knowledge and skills to empower yourself and your community, using Grocott’s Mail as your platform.

You will learn:

- The principles of good journalism, enabling you to write stories about what's happening in and around Grahamstown, to be published in Grocott's Mail and on Grocott's Mail Online, or wherever else you'd like. 

- How to take good photos, video and audio with your cellphone to accompany your written stories.

If you would like more information about the course and producing citizen journalism for Grocott’s Mail, please contact Kwanele Butana (Citizen Journalism Editor) on 046 622 7222 or k.butana@grocotts.co.za  or Elvira van Noort (Citizen Journalism Trainer) on 073 832 77 59 or elvira@evnmedia.com.

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

Dates of next course:

To be confirmed. Registration is not currently open.