The Course Modules
On enrolling, you’ll receive all 15 modules below.
From this list you’ll concentrate on seven modules
of your choice, and write an assignment on each.
Which seven will you choose?
1. The media in the 21st century. The future. Who’s
buying copy, and who’s hiring staff? What’s the
future of freelancing? Globalisation, the developing world,
terrorism.
2. Scoop! Undertaking investigative
journalism. Contacts
and snouts. Writing news and news features. Key issues in
investigative journalism. Crime. Politics. Environmentalism.
3. Writing Feature Articles. Getting the angle. Topics that
sell, and those that don’t. Who is hiring and buying?
4. Local issues: citizen journalism. Fire and flood, How
to break local stories. The angle. Finding sources. Getting
their first. Being in the know. Jobs in local media.
5. Broadcast journalism. Getting a job in newspapers and
magazines, TV or radio.
6. Music journalism. Techniques. Markets. How to get a job
in music journalism
7. Sports journalism. How to get a job in sports journalism.
8. Celebrity journalism. Working in celebrity. Photography
and the paparazzi.
9. Internet journalism. Blogging and beyond. Twitter and
emerging developments. Your own website. Online criticism.
Review sites. 20 ways to make a buck online.
10. Women’s journalism. Food, fashion and features.
Getting a job in women’s magazines.
11. Earning a living as a freelance
journalist. Where to
submit your work. Keeping records. How to sell your work.
Fees and expenses.
12. How to interview. How to get the answers you want. Finding
people. Getting their agreement. Recording methods. Transcription.
Shorthand.
13. How to write: content, style, writers
block, working to a schedule. Techniques. Angles. Perspectives. Understanding
the needs of the reader. Openers. Writing to a fixed length.
How to close. Links and contacts.
14. Keeping out of trouble. Journalism and the law. Defamation
libel and slander. Copyright.
15. How to research in half the time. The importance of
research. Sources of research.
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