ALJ112 - News Reporting

Year:

2025 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*

Credit point(s): 1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with: ALJM112
Study commitment

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Scheduled learning activities - campus

1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week


Scheduled learning activities - online

Approximately 2-hours of online learning tasks and discussions per week

Note:

*Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus)

Content

Build your skills and knowledge of multimedia news reporting. In this unit, you will produce your own news stories that cover issues that interest you. These stories will cross media platforms and will include a written news story, a photojournalism piece and a video news package for broadcast. You'll also hone your skills in, and knowledge of, news values, researching, interviewing and editing. You will meet deadlines and expand your knowledge of the social, professional and legal contexts journalists work within.

Unit Fee Information

Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study and their study discipline, and your study load.

Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.

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