Course overview
This course aims to provide a student with an advanced and in-depth experience in reflexive and entrepreneurial journalism practice through a range of production exercises and projects. Focusing on areas such as science, sports, travel and arts & culture journalism, the course will provide students with industry relevant projects, with the aim of producing industry standard journalism work across a range of platforms.
- Context for Advanced Journalism
- Specialist Journalism
- Audiences and Purpose
Course learning outcomes
- Research and plan a polished piece of in-depth, social justice and multimedia journalism.
- Apply advanced journalism research techniques and skills, including data research, visualisation, interpretation and analysis, investigative interviewing, and reporting empirical evidence, to create and produce an in-depth work of multimedia journalism to a professional standard.
- Identify and comply with the ethical and legal guidelines and requirements involved in the production of a major work of journalism.
- Reflect on the research and production process while incorporating relevant concepts and theories in journalism studies.
- Write and/or present in multiple formats to a professional standard, including sentence structure, spelling and grammar, appropriate presentation and referencing.