A portfolio of broadcast material (100% weighting, Learning Outcomes 1 to 6).

Key Information Set Data:
100% Coursework

This 15 credit module examines concurrently online radio and TV reporting and presentation. The module aims to integrate the major theories and practical skills of the broadcast journalist. It also gives students a grasp of professional presentation techniques. It investigates, analyses and gives practice in finding news stories, voice and package reporting, interview techniques, bulletin editing, the use of actuality, the use of records/engineering and digital editing.
The module examines broadcast journalism practice to give essential skills in the field as well as an understanding of the relationship between the practice of broadcast journalism, the production values of broadcasting and definitions of news.
The module will examine present practice but will extend this to explore the impact of new technology on news and newsgathering. The module will teach radio and TV styles and their relative effectiveness.

Theory and practice are integrated. Online radio and television are also covered concurrently with individual and group work on broadcast assignments. All teaching takes place in the broadcast newsroom and studios and occasionally on location filming. Contact time takes place through workshop sessions in which lecture and practical material is combined with a programme of directed reading and viewing and listening.
Technical training will be offered throughout and is built into specific workshops to enable students to gain practice in the use of recording equipment such as audio recording with a Marantz, audio editing with Audacity, use of the ENG camcorder for filming, and use of Final Cut Pro film editing software.

Allan, Stuart (2005) Journalism: Critical Issues, Buckingham, OU Press
Andrews, Phil (2005) Sports Journalism: A Practical Guide, Sage
Frost, Chris (2002) Reporting for Journalists, London, Routledge
Frost, Chris (2007) Journalism Ethics and Regulation (2nd edit.) London, Pearson
Harcup, Tony (2003) Journalism: Principles and Practice, London, Sage.
Harcup,Tony (2007) The Ethical Journalist, London, Sage.
Hicks, Wynford (1999) Writing for Journalists, London, Routledge.
Hicks, Wynford (1998) English for Journalists, London, Routledge.
Hudson, Gary and Rowlands, Sarah (2007) The Broadcast Journalism Handbook, London, Pearson.
McKane, Anna, (2007) Newswriting, London, Sage.
Phillips, Angela, (2007) Good Writing for Journalists, London, Sage
Quinn, Francis, (2007) Law for Journalists, London, Pearson
Quinn, Stephen (2001) Digital Sub Editing and Design, Oxford, Focal Press
Sanders, Karen (2003) Ethics and Journalism, London, Sage.
Sissons, Helen, (2007) Practical Journalism: How to Write News, London, Sage.
Snoddy, Raymond (1992) The Good, The Bad and The Unacceptable, London, Faber and Faber.
Starkey, Guy (2007) Balance and Bias in Journalism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Newsroom
Radio and TV studios
Recorders and TV cameras
Internet/StaffsLive
PA Mediapoint
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

1. DEMONSTRATE SOUND EDITORIAL UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT MAKES A NEWS STORY AND ABILITY TO GENERATE AN ANGLE
Knowledge & Understanding

2. PRODUCE A BROADCAST WRITING STYLE WHICH REFLECTS INDUSTRY STANDARD FOR ONLINE RADIO AND TELEVISION NEWS
Application

3. RECORD, EDIT AND COMPILE NEWS PACKAGES FOR ONLINE RADIO AND TV BROADCASTS WITH CLARITY AND INTEREST
Problem Solving

4. ADAPT TO VARIOUS STYLES OF PRESENTATION, WRITING AND EDITORIAL
Learning

5. DEMONSTRATE A CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND AWARENESS OF CONTEMPORARY THEORIES AND APPROACHES TO PRACTICE OF BROADCAST JOURNALISM
Analysis

6. SHOW ORIGINALITY IN THE APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE
Application