Overview
Qualification Grading Type
Graded
Unit Learning Outcomes
1.
Understand how to source stories and pictures for a local newspaper, news website or broadcast.
Assessment Criteria
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1.1.
Explain a range of ways in which new stories can be sources for a local newspaper, news website or broadcast.
2.
Understand how to develop a network of contacts and the importance of establishing professional working relationships with a range of key contacts.
Assessment Criteria
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2.1.
Explain how a network of contacts can be developed.
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2.2.
Suggest a range of useful contacts.
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2.3.
.Analyse the potential usefulness of these contacts to a local news journalist, with reference to a variety of specific published news articles.
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2.4.
Explain and evaluate the importance to a new journalist of professional working relationship with a range of key contacts.
3.
Be able to source and write an original, ‘new’ news story and accompanying pictures for a local newspaper or news website.
Assessment Criteria
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3.1.
Source an original news story for a local newspaper or news website, outlining the ideas and process followed.
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3.2.
Source appropriate accompanying pictures for own story.
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3.3.
Write an original news story for a local newspaper or website, following news writing conventions and writing to length.
4.
Understand the newsworthiness of own news story and its likely readership/audience.
Assessment Criteria
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4.1.
Explain and evaluate the newsworthiness of own news story.
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4.2.
Analyse own news story to identify its likely readership/audience.
5.
Understand how to ‘follow up’ news story with possible further reports and/or features for a local newspaper or news website.
Assessment Criteria
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5.1.
Produce a list of potential follow-up suggestions for own news story.
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5.2.
Explain how these could be approached to produce further reports and/or features for a local newspaper or news website.