There will be a series of weekly newsdays each lasting approx. 8 hours. Students will work as a team to produce text, pictures, audio and video content for a rolling news website, replicating a convergent newsroom operating in the industry today.
Students will run the operation as a team. They will be allocated tasks on each newsday, with one student acting as news editor each week. Each student will be able to perform each different role throughout the series of modules.
Staff will be on hand to oversee, guide and help throughout each Newsday workshop.
The workshops will be supplemented by group discussion and feedback sessions on completion of each workshop, as well as one-to-one tutorials during and after the Newsdays to offer students advice and guidance on their performance.
Students will continue to attend two 2-hr shorthand seminars each week to build up their Teeline speed, with the aim of passing the NCTJ examination of 100 words per minute on completion of the module.

This module seeks to bring together the student's newly acquired knowledge and journalistic skills and put them into practice in a convergent newsroom environment, replicating the industry today.
The module will allow students to work as a team to make decisions at the start on story ideas and coverage for the day.
Students will then undertake specific roles within each newsday, carrying out duties specific to news reporters, camera operators/photographers, sub editors, web editors. Each will have the opportunity to lead the team as news editor.
They will have access to technical equipment in which they will have been trained throughout Semester 1 and the early part of Semester 2. Students will continue to enhance shorthand note-taking skills during this module with additional Teeline seminars designed to help them develop their speed and ability to reach NCTJ qualified standard.
The module will allow students to use the rolling online news site StaffsLive as a platform to publish their material throughout each newsday workshop.
In the module, students will be working to specific deadlines and content requirements to produce a news website with a variety of news and features supported by still images, audio and video.

Print and Broadcast newsrooms
TV and audio equipment
StaffsLive web and internet
PA Mediapoint
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where appropriate) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the modula handbook.

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Portfolio of work: Approx. 2,000 words. Students will submit a portfolio of work they have had published on StaffsLive during the Newsdays, which should demonstrate a variety of articles in terms of subject and content (weighting 50% - learning outcomes 1 to 6)
Students will also be assessed on their shorthand, and all shorthand notes must be submitted with each news story included in the assessed portfolio.

Newsday performance. Each student will be assessed by tutors on how they performed in each Newsday. They will be assessed on presentation, teamwork, leadership skills, communication skills, organisation, decision making and so on (weighting 50% - learning outcomes 1 to 6)

This module is an introduction to the techniques of studio-based news journalism and offers you a full range of skills to produce professional radio and TV programmes, both in front and behind the cameras. You will learn how to present and produce live news programming, using our state-of-the-art radio and television studios. Meanwhile, your written skills will be put to the test, with the chance to write news stories and features for the department website StaffsLive.