Module UXS-1001:
Intro to Practical Journalism
Intro to Practical Journalism 2024-25
UXS-1001
2024-25
School Of Arts, Culture And Language
Module - Semester 1
20 credits
Module Organiser:
Ifan Jones
Overview
- The Basics of Writing a News Story
- How to write Intros, Drop Intros, Lively Intros
- What makes a good news story?
- Where do stories come from?
- How to build a contacts book
- How to conduct an interview
- Writing for TV and Radio
- Colour and Feature Writing
- An Introduction to Shorthand
- How to deal with breaking news
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse news events and construct their own independent view of each story
- Appreciate the different journalistic writing skills for the press, TV and radio
- Appreciate the importance of finding, nurturing and developing contacts
- Be able to research their own stories and develop these for future use
- Deal with interview situations, both planned and unplanned
- Originate their own stories and construct these with all the necessary elements to enable them to be published
- Understand and appreciate the need to write copy to length
Assessment type
Summative
Weighting
35%
Assessment type
Summative
Weighting
35%
Assessment type
Summative
Weighting
30%