Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Liverpool Screen School

Learning Methods

Lecture
Seminar

Module Offerings

5038JOURN-SEP-MTP

Aims

1. To build on and develop students' previous production and writing skills to produce and present online sports content. 2. To allow students to develop some advanced writing skills and formulate ways users can be encouraged to generate news-orientated content. 3. To work as a team in a live newsroom environment, covering stories in real-time

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Web site production. Students will work as news teams and individually to learn how to write for the web and produce web content, including online text editing and headline writing. Introduction to advanced sports writing - news analysis and backgrounders; reviewing; columns/blogs. Critique of how UGC is currently gathered and deployed. Professional practice of content moderation and issues of taste, decency and legality
Module Overview:
This module will build on and develop your previous production and writing skills to produce and present online sports content. You will develop some advanced writing skills and formulate ways users can be encouraged to generate news-orientated content.
Additional Information:Students will learn how to prepare their sports journalism for the web, and apply their understanding to a real-world environment.

Assessments

Portfolio
Essay