As a former journalist, yes and no. When I first started, my company treated me to a 1 week internal course, that was very good. As I recall, there was a day on story structure - news leads v feature, pyramid, delayed drop etc. A day on the basics of law for journalism - libel and the like. A day on interviewing and keeping transcripts. A day on ethics,, on the record, off the record, non-attributable. There was also a dy on what subs do - headline writing and the like. All in in all a good, very useful grounding.
No. This was in the mid to early 1980s in the UK, for a large B2B computer magazine publisher (VNU). Journalism school really wasn't 'a thing' to nearly the same degree then. Instead you were trained on the job. My degree was biology, but I had worked a lot on the student newspaper.
I don't think this kind of induction training was typical - it was just put on by that particular company at that particular period. But it was very good. Shout out to the trainer who I still remember 30 years later. You were excellent Tim https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-ring-33b7233
Yeah I interned and worked at 2 large regional papers and I never got trained in writing or story structure, just on how to use the CMS, LexisNexis, and occasionally the in-house lawyer would come in to do off-the-record q&a’s about legal issues
