Media Arts & Communication Studies
Broadcast Journalism
Course Outline
Upon completion of this course you will be able to answer questions and solve problems involving techniques used in the modern broadcast newsroom. The information contained in this course is used daily by broadcasters and broadcast journalists in the commercial and public broadcast systems. This is a single stream course.
Topics of study covered within this course includes the following:
• Copy
• Words
• Meanings
• Sentences
• Leads
• Stories
• Sources
• Gathering News
• Audio
• Writing to Audio
• Coverage
• Newscasts
• Public Affairs
• Visuals
• Television Reporting
• Writing to Visuals
• Television Newscasts
• News on the Web
• Ethics and the Law
Duration
Approximately 20 hours
Text Books
The text book required for this course is outlined below and can be purchased through any online book supplier:
ISBN#: 0-534-59570-7
Prerequisites
None
Cost
$699.00