Do you long for new energy and hope for the future of democracy and journalism? Do you need tips, tools and formats to attract a larger audience? And do you want to learn the latest of the global mega trend in media – constructive journalism – that is being implemented in news rooms like in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Holland?

What can be done about the fact that more and more people become news avoiders?

Constructive Institute invites reporters, editors and other people from the media for an exclusive international Master Class on inspirational, nuanced and engaging reporting.

Two days of learning the why, the what and the how of constructive journalism.

Tuition fee: 995 euros (7.500 Danish kroner) – including lunch on both days and dinner on first night

Danish journalists and media people can apply for financial support here: https://pressensuddannelsesfond.dk/ansoegning/

The working language of the Master Class will be English, as the participants are arriving from different countries.

Sign up by writing your name, your mail address and the name of your media to head of fellowship program, Orla Borg, at Constructive Institute at ob@constructiveinstitute.org

Deadline for signing up: November 1st, 2024

Please see preliminary program below.

Tuesday 12th of November:

9.00: Registration and coffee.

9.30: Welcome and presentation of the participants in the Master Class.

10.00: Why is it necessary to rethink journalism? The challenges we face in journalism when it comes to news avoidance, endangered business models and increasing competition for people’s attention. In what ways could the concept of constructive journalism be relevant in the renewal of our profession as journalists and editors?
By Ulrik Haagerup, author of the book “Constructive News”, former news director of Danish Broadcasting Corporation, founder and CEO of Constructive Institute.

11: 00: Coffee break.

11.15: So what is constructive journalism actually? Is it not merely good classical well documented journalism? If so, why doesn’t everybody do constructive journalism?
By Ulrik Haagerup.

12.30: Lunch

13.30: How do you see constructive journalism yourself? Your own examples on stories that you consider constructive. The stories are to be sent to Constructive Institute prior to the Master Class. The Three Pillars of Constructive Journalism.
By Orla Borg, former investigative journalist at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, now head of the Fellowship Program at Constructive Institute.

15:00: Coffee break

15.30: Hands on workshop with the tools of constructive journalism, looking for stories in the current news flow that could be handled with a constructive approach.

16.30: Presentation of constructive angles of current news stories.

18.00: Drinks and networking.

19.00: Dinner at restaurant downtown Aarhus.

 

Wednesday 13th of November.

9.00:  Pick up from yesterday. What tools were useful?

9.30: Changing the journalistic mind set of a news organization. How has the public broadcasting corporation of NRK in Norway introduced constructive journalism in the daily news flow?
By editor at NRK, Ingrid Tinmannsvik.

11.00: Coffee break.

11.15: How do you make sure that you actually do journalism that is relevant to your audience? In the city of Silkeborg, the newspaper changed from traditional journalism to constructive journalism. How did they do it, how did they aim to get closer to their audience and how did it work out?
By news editor for Brian Holst of the newspaper Midtjyllands Avis.

12.30: Lunch

13.30: Making the ideas of constructive journalism linger on in the news room. How do you make sure that constructive journalism is not only “the flavour of the year”, but is actually a lasting change in the way we do journalism?
By constructive editor Kristina Lund Jørgensen of TV2 Fyn, the first Danish newsroom to systematically incorporate the ideas of constructive journalism.

15.00: Wrap up. What could the ideas of constructive journalism mean to you in your future work?

15.30: Thank you – and good luck with working with constructive journalism.