The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102958   Message #2092116
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
02-Jul-07 - 12:22 AM
Thread Name: BS: congratulating a newsreader
Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
"What journalism school did he graduate from!??"

Almost any - but the USQ School of Journalism (for the full thing!) :-) mentioned in this thread seems a likely place... :-)

I did a short Journalism Course that allows me entry into the AJA - was disgusted at the sensationalism expected...

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This course is designed to introduce students to the Australian news media and their practices. Emphasis will be placed on the need for This unit is designed to introduce students to the Australian news students to think objectively about the main news events of the day, media and their practices. Emphasis will be placed on the need for and the ways the print media have reported them. Students will be students to think objectively about the main news events of the day, encouraged to achieve accuracy and objectivity within the constraints and the ways the print media have reported them. Students will be regularly imposed on print practitioners. Students will be introduced encouraged to achieve accuracy and objectivity within the constraints to news values, journalism research, interview skills, and the elements regularly imposed on print practitioners. Students will introduced that make up news stories. They will be given considerable practice in to news values, journalism research, interview skills, and the elements writing introductory paragraphs and handling direct and indirect that make up news stories. They will be given considerable practice in quotations. To pass this course students must complete and hand in all writing introductory paragraphs and handling direct and indirect terms of assessment. The final grade will be calculated on the total quotations, mark only. Grades will be awarded at the percentiles of HD = 90 or more: A = 80-89; B = 65-79; C = 50-64; F = less than 50.
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