First Draft (12024.1)

Throughout your course, you will work as a student journalist for The Owl, publishing stories across multiple online platforms and broadcasting on UCFM. In this unit, you will be inducted into The Owl¿s editorial processes and begin developing your skills in multimedia content gathering and production. Through practical weekly tasks, you will start to build confidence in public-facing aspects of journalism, such as interviewing and presentation, and you will begin generating networks of contacts and story ideas. By the end of the unit, you will have produced at least one complete story for The Owl. Alongside hands-on weekly activities, you will examine what is reported by the Australian news media, and how.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Produce basic multimedia and multiplatform content, working autonomously and collaboratively;
2. Gather journalistic source material through interviews and basic research methods;
3. Write a basic news story with all associated publication collateral for The Owl, within the structured editorial process; and
4. Critically reflect on the output of contemporary news media in Australia.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - evaluate and adopt new technology
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - communicate and engage with Indigenous Australians in ethical and culturally respectful ways
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - apply their knowledge to working with Indigenous Australians in socially just ways

Prerequisites

None.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

11084 Journalism Now and Next

Assumed knowledge

None.