This module examines concurrently online, radio and TV reporting and presentation. The module aims at integrating the major theories and practical skills of the broadcast and online journalist. It also gives students a grasp of professional presentation techniques. It investigates, analyses and gives practice in news and feature stories, voice and package reporting, interview techniques, bulletin editing, the use of actuality, the use of records/engineering and digital editing. It gives practice at news reading and analyses various styles of news presentation.
The Journalism Department’s bespoke website/blog is an integral part of the teaching and learning.
The module examines broadcast and online 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.

MA students will lead teams in editorial, presenting and production activities to demonstrate hone and demonstrate their team working and team leading skills.

Broadcast Portfolio 60%

To include eight broadcast pieces; four radio, four TV, totalling a maximum 18 minutes. A “piece” can be a “package” but can also include other forms of broadcast output, e.g. green screen presentation, live “two-way” broadcast, main presentation roles, podcast etc [LOs 1, 2, 4]


Written Portfolio 20%

3-5 articles. [LOs 1, 2, 5]

Reflective evaluation 20% [LOs 2, 5]


Employability

Assessments 1-2 are the sort of daily activity required in many roles in all areas of the sports journalism industry. Both are authentic assessments.


Diversity

Students will be encouraged to cover issues relating to diversity and equality in sport.


Reflection

Assessment three is a reflective evaluation.

26x3hour workshops/technical instruction (TI)

26x6hour Newsdays in the Newsroom, broadcasting as-live TV and radio programming


Theory and practice are integrated. Radio and online is covered in the first semester and television and online in the second semester. There is individual and group work on broadcast and online assignments. All teaching takes place in the broadcast newsroom and studios and occasionally on location filming. Contact time takes place through the workshop sessions in which lecture and practical material is combined with a programme of directed reading and viewing and listening.

1. Demonstrate advanced editorial understanding of what makes a news story and ability to find the news angle

2. Demonstrate professional broadcast and online writing and presentation skills

3. Demonstrate leadership in editorial, presentation and production activities in a newsroom setting.

4. Record, edit and compile substantial and varied packages for radio, TV, online with clarity and interest

5. Develop advanced conceptual understanding and critical appreciation and awareness of contemporary theories and theoretical, approaches to the practice of broadcast and written journalism

Newsroom facilities plus relevant software

Radio and TV studios

Equipment from stores

Blackboard

Adams, Sally and Lee-Potter, Emma (2017) Interviewing for Journalists, Routledge.

Anderson, Douglas A., (1994) Contemporary Sports Reporting, Nelson-Hall

Andrews, P. (2013) Sports Journalism – A Practical Introduction, Sage.

Boyle, Raymond (2006) Sports Journalism – Context and Issues, Sage.

Boyle, Raymond (2020) Changing Sports Journalism Practice in the Age of Digital, Routledge

Bradshaw, Paul and Rohumaa, Liisa (2011) The Online Journalism Handbook, Pearson.

Bradshaw, Tom and Minogue, Daragh (2019) Sports Journalism – The State of Play, Routledge.

Bull A. (2016) Multimedia Journalism – A Practical Guide, Routledge.

Frost, C. (2010) Reporting for Journalists, Routledge.

Harcup, T. (2021) Journalism Principles and Practice, Sage.

Hennessy, B. (2006) Writing Feature Articles (4th edition), Focal Press.

Hudson, G & Rowlands, S (2007) The Broadcast Journalism Handbook, Pearson

Rowe, D., (2004) Sport, Culture and the Media, Open UP

Rudin, R., and Ibbotson, T., (2002) An Introduction to Journalism - essential techniques and background, Focal Press

Steen, R. (2013) Sports Journalism, A Multimedia Primer, Routledge.

Stewart, Peter and Alexander, Ray. (2016, 7th ed) Broadcast Journalism, Routledge

Thompson, Rick, (2010) Writing for Broadcast Journalists, Routledge.

Toney, J. (2013) Sports Journalism – The Inside Track, Bloomsbury.

Wilstein, S., (2002) Sportswriting handbook, McGraw-Hill

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This module is your first step to becoming a successful broadcast journalist, or print/online journalist with broadcast skills. It will give you the basic skills needed to produce a news story for broadcast or online. Whatever route you take, you will need to be able to write well. The module will also provide you with the knowledge and skills to assess the relative merits of stories and to carry out the research and interviews necessary to put a story together.