Portfolio of articles (some in controlled, timed circumstances) totalling 2,000 words.

Newsroom facilities
Media Laboratory
National and regional newspapers and magazines
Internet ? www.news.bbc.co.uk/news
www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk
www.ofcom.org.uk
www.nctj.com
www.newspapersoc.org.uk
www.guardian.co.uk/media

David Randall, 2000(2nd edition),The Universal Journalist, Pluto Press.
Richard Keeble, 2001,(3rd edition) The Newspapers Handbook, Rotledge.
Richard Rudin and Trevor Ibbotson, 2002, An Introduction to Journalism, Focal Press.
Wynford Hicks, 1998, English for Journalists, Routledge
Ivor Yorke, 2000 (4th edition), Television News, Focal Press
Ted White, Broadcast News: 2002 (3rd edition) Writing, Reporting and Producing, Focal Press
Andrew Boyd, 1997 (4th edition), Broadcast Journalism,:Techniques of Radio and TV News, Focal Press
Christopher Browne, 1999, The Journalist?s Handbook, A and C Black, London
Lynette Sheridan Burns, 2002, Understanding Journalism, Sage
Joan Clayton, 1994, Interviewing for Journalists, Piatkus

One weekly lecture to communicate principles of news evaluation and news writing.
One weekly workshop to practise writing and apply the theory learned in the lectures.
Independent study in order to prepare and research for the workshops.
Visiting professionals to deliver lectures and take part in workshops.

This module is designed to build on the work done in T and P 1 in order to develop students' news writing skills. It also introduces students to the principles of news gathering and the importance of sources and contacts to the news generation process. They will learn about the practical and commercial restraints of news production and the pressures placed on the journalist in terms of ethics and accuracy. By the end of the module students should be able to originate and write a hard news story and a personal profile.
Work undertaken on this module will also prepare students for the NCTJ Handout and Newspaper Journalism exams.