Local News Journalism

Overview

Framework:
Access to HE 2024
Level:
Level 3
Unit No:
Not available
Credits:
6
Guided learning hours:
Not available

Qualification Grading Type

Graded

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Unit Learning Outcomes

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1. — Understand how to source stories and pictures for a local newspaper, news website or broadcast.

Assessment Criteria

  • 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

  • 2.1.

    Explain how a network of contacts can be developed.

  • 2.2.

    Suggest a range of useful contacts.

  • 2.3.

    .Analyse the potential usefulness of these contacts to a local news journalist, with reference to a variety of specific published news articles.

  • 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

  • 3.1.

    Source an original news story for a local newspaper or news website, outlining the ideas and process followed.

  • 3.2.

    Source appropriate accompanying pictures for own story.

  • 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

  • 4.1.

    Explain and evaluate the newsworthiness of own news story.

  • 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

  • 5.1.

    Produce a list of potential follow-up suggestions for own news story.

  • 5.2.

    Explain how these could be approached to produce further reports and/or features for a local newspaper or news website.