Report With
Better Notes
Practice choosing a story angle, asking sharper questions, checking
facts, and turning rough notes into a readable short report.
What You Practice

Story Angles
Turn broad ideas into focused report topics with a clear lead, news value, and useful background context.

Interview Guides
Prepare questions, follow-ups, and note labels so quotes and facts do not get mixed together.

Draft Checks
Review names, dates, numbers, attribution, and headline fit before shaping the article into cleaner copy.
Small Checks Improve Drafts
Read practical notes on leads, source logs, interview questions, quote use, and the small edits that make a report easier to trust.
The course made reporting feel less chaotic. I learned to separate quotes, facts, and details that still needed checking before trying to write the article.

Kumiko Hakamada
Reporting Lessons
Short exercises for interviews, notes, leads, source checks, and article drafts




