Journalism in Context

Unit code: HAM430

Credit points	12.5 Credit Points
Duration	1 Semester
Contact hours	3 Hours per Week
Campus	Hawthorn
Prerequisites	Nil

Related course(s)

From 2008, a unit of study in the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master of Arts (Media and Communications).

Aims and objectives

This subject will aim to introduce students to current issues affecting the profession of journalism in Australia and around the world. It will also allow students to undertake extended writing projects to enhance and improve their writing and research skills. It will also encourage students to think critically about the social and cultural place of journalism, the production of news and the role of the media audience.

Teaching methods

Tutorials and workshops

Assessment

Class exercises 25%, Contribution to news team 25%, Major project 50%

Content

This subject will cover a range of issues to do with contemporary journalism in the context of converged media and cross-media platforms. Areas to be covered include hyperlocal journalism and the web, citizen journalism and participatory media, news and the blogoshere, news gathering in virtual environments, on demand news production, journalism and changing copyright environments.

Reading materials

Bruns, A. Gatewatching : collaborative online news production (New York: Peter Lang, 2005).
Ricketson, M. Writing Feature Stories (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2004).
Tanner, S. Journalism: Investigation and Research (Frenchs Forest: Pearson Education Australia, 2002).
Conley, D & Lamble, S. The Daily Miracle (3rd edn, Oxford News Ltd, 2006).

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