Course overview
This course will extend students' news writing skills and understandings, focusing on feature writing, freelance journalism, news rounds and documentary. Students will further demonstrate their skills in feature writing for the media, and will become familiar with key elements of magazine journalism and freelance journalism. They will explore specialist news rounds and how these can be utilised in long form journalism.
Course learning outcomes
- create feature and in-depth news articles which extend the key theories of the course
- apply expertise in a range of longer-form journalism styles
- build competency associated with freelance work in journalism
- implement skills associated with specialist news rounds
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