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This course is a foundational and practice-focused course in the Journalism major. In this course, students begin developing the skills of a professional journalist, including exploring the principles of quality journalism, learning journalistic style, and being able to explain how to make sense of and write about what is going on in the world. In addition to students undertaking the Journalism major, this course is also relevant to students in majors such as Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, and Professional Photography, as well as students interested in learning how to write like a professional journalist.

In this course, you will start learning the skills required for working in the news media and other relevant communications industries. You will examine the purpose and principles underpinning professional journalistic practice, learn to identify newsworthy information, and develop knowledge on how to achieve accuracy, fairness and balance within the constraints imposed regularly on journalists. You will be introduced to news values, journalistic research, interviewing, and other elements that make up news stories such as the creation of effective story angles, appropriate handling of attribution and quotations, and properly structuring complete news stories.

On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

1. identify and examine news history, values, style and relevant theory and ethical concepts in local and global contexts;
2. incorporate and attribute original information derived from a range of appropriate sources, including from students’ in-person interviews, into news stories;
3. use ethical decision-making to make editorial judgements and apply news values to obtain newsworthy and balanced information;
4. communicate in appropriate journalistic style using precise, discipline-specific conventions and technologies;
5. effectively manage their journalistic practice by adhering to deadlines in all areas of practice including in the location of sources, completion of interviews and submission of assessments.