Built by a newsroom, for the newsroom
chronicleza grew out of Course A, a training programme first written for reporters who needed a shared method for turning a lead into a broadcast-ready package under deadline pressure.
Our story
chronicleza began as an internal training notebook, shared between producers who kept running into the same problem: reporters arrived with strong instincts but no consistent way to structure a report, plan a rundown or hold a studio cue. Course A was written to close that gap, module by module, using real newsroom deadlines as the test.
Today the course is taught in newsrooms across the United Kingdom, adapted for local and national broadcasters, and refined every year against feedback from the working journalists who take it.
What we believe
Structure protects creativity
A clear editorial spine gives a reporter room to write with voice, not less of it.
Practice under real pressure
Every module is rehearsed against a live-style deadline, because that is the only way the habit sticks.
Feedback belongs on the desk
Notes on a report are most useful the same day it airs, not weeks later in a written review.