| CODE | MCS2030 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Journalism 2 | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Media and Communications | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Students learn how changes to journalism are being brought by changes in technology and how they are in turn changing politics and society. They will be given advanced training in the effective interviewing and writing techniques required to craft a short profile article for publication on traditional and online platforms. They will also gain advanced understanding of media law and ethics and be given specialised training in reporting on business, government and politics, crime courts and social affairs. Study-Unit Aims: - To give students an understanding of journalism and technology; - To acquaint students with specialised reporting; - To advance students' understanding of journalism best practices, media law and ethics, and style; - To provide an opportunity for students to further improve their writing, interviewing, and language usage skills. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Explain how news industries are changing with particular reference to online news production; - Explain how changes in journalism are changing politics and society; - Write news stories for print, broadcast, and online media; - Adhere to the latest statutory and common law applicable to journalists; - Conduct themselves as ethical journalists. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Write news stories on specialised topics such as business, government and politics, crime and courts and social affairs; - Edit news stories using proper grammar and style; - Write a short profile article based on different interviews and sources; - Work as a journalist under contemporary newsroom constraints. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Briggs, M. (2013). Journalism next: A practical guide to digital reporting and publishing. CQ Press. - Reuters Handbook of Journalism: https://www.trust.org/contentAsset/raw-data/652966ab-c90b-4252-b4a5-db8ed1d438ce/file - Sissons, H. (2006). Practical journalism: How to write news. SAGE Publications Ltd. https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781446216828 Supplementary Readings: - Adornato, A. (2021). Mobile and Social Media Journalism: A Practical Guide for Multimedia Journalism (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003186779 - Bossio, D., & Nelson, J. L. (2021). Reconsidering Innovation: Situating and Evaluating Change in Journalism. Journalism Studies, 22(11), 1377-1381. - de Burgh, H. (2021) Investigative Journalism (3rd Ed). London: Routledge. - Gyori, B., & Charles, M. (2017). Designing Journalists: Teaching Journalism Students to Think Like Web Designers. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, 73(2), 200–217. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077695817713424 - Katz, J. E., & Mays, K. K. (Eds.). (2019). Journalism and Truth in an age of Social Media. Oxford University Press, USA. - Thomson, T. J., Angus, D., Dootson, P., Hurcombe, E., & Smith, A. (2020). Visual Mis/disinformation in Journalism and Public Communications: Current Verification Practices, Challenges, and Future Opportunities. Journalism Practice, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2020.1832139 |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-unit: MCS1030 | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Nicole Talmacs Martin Debattista |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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