Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
A Reporter’s Toolkit for the Digital Age
This course guided learners on the vital ingredients of good and trust-worthy journalism and on some of the skills needed to produce it in a digital era. The topics included news judgement, news and newsgathering on social media, covering local areas and communities and telling personal stories. Learners were tasked with finding and creating a news story in their local area or community and with making a social media post and blog post.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Ian Reeves
Head of the Centre for Journalism,
The University of Kent
Angela Harrison
Journalism Lecturer, Centre for Journalism,
The University of Kent
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Summarise the essential ingredients of good reporting
- Develop news judgement
- Reflect on different communities being represented in the news
- Discuss the power of social media
- Explore impartiality and personal news stories
Syllabus
- Essential ingredients for good reporting
- Developing news judgement
- Reflections on different communities being represented in the news
- Power of social media
- Impartiality and personal news stories
Issued on 24th January 2023
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