Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

LJMU Partner Taught

Learning Methods

Seminar
Workshop

Module Offerings

7523IST-SEP-PAR

Aims

1. To equip students with fundamental content gathering and reporting tools 2. To develop students' knowledge of essential digital skills in journalism 3. To enhance journalistic writing styles

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:This module will help students understand what is 'newsworthy' and what makes a story, develop their content 'ideas' from source to completion, and they will learn to develop and nurture contacts and sources. Students will employ effective interview techniques to obtain information and quotes and will use appropriate media and platforms for disseminating content. It will develop their journalistic writing style to enable them to construct readable and engaging content as well as employ SEO skills for headlines, intros, captions, social media teasers and more. They will develop technical CMS and mobile journalism skills required in today's industry so they can produce/edit video, audio and image-led content

Assessments

Practice
Portfolio