Available in 2024
Course code

CMNS3333

Units

10 units

Level

3000 level

Course handbook

Description

The course blends practical experience with critical insights into news genres and careers. It will cover emerging trends in news, including strategies for dissemination of news via social media platforms. Students will develop advanced writing, researching, interviewing, and production skills suitable for multiplatform journalism. They will create fast turnaround, mobile news stories for television, online and social media audiences. Students will develop skills demonstrating ethical and legal obligations of news story creation.


Availability2024 Course Timetables

Newcastle City Precinct

  • Semester 1 - 2024

Singapore PSB

  • Trimester 3 - 2024 (Singapore)

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Utilise effective oral and written communication skills relevant for contemporary journalism practice.

2. Apply journalism principles and practices to create news stories for television, online and social media platforms.

3. Apply theoretical knowledge of emerging trends in news media and technological changes to produce engaging digital stories for online and social media audiences.

4. Reflect on the relationship between media practice and theory


Content

Topics will include:

  1. The responsibility to produce accurate and fair reporting, particularly in a media-convergent world and in a multicultural society
  2. The video journalist as reporter, storyteller, interviewer, information disseminator
  3. Getting, planning and recording the video story
  4. Interviewing for video for a range of outcomes
  5. Researching, writing and packaging news
  6. Presenting news in the field and in the television studio
  7. Video journalism across online and social media
  8. Strategies for promoting news stories and journalists across various platforms

Requisite

This course is only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Communication and the Bachelor of Creative Industries, and associated combined degree programs.

[11496] Bachelor of Communication

[12342] Bachelor of Communication/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[40041] Bachelor of Creative Industries

[40125] Bachelor of Creative Industries/Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

[40246] Bachelor of Development Studies/Bachelor of Communication

[40289] Bachelor of Psychological Science/Bachelor of Communication


Assumed knowledge

It is assumed that students have technical proficiency in mobile video and audio recording, and non-linear video editing, provided in CMNS1240 and CMNS1100.

Students are expected to have a foundation in news media and media storytelling equivalent to CMNS2320 and CMNS1090.


Assessment items

Professional Task: TV news story

Professional Task: Digital news story

Professional Task: Social media news story

Journal: Critical reflection


Contact hours

Semester 1 - 2024 - Newcastle City Precinct

Lecture-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per fortnight for 4 fortnight(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 4 week(s) starting in week 8
Tutorial-2
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 6 week(s) starting in week 2

Trimester 3 - 2024 (Singapore) - Singapore PSB

Lecture-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s)
Tutorial-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s)

Course outline