CJB302 Newsdesk
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| Unit code: | CJB302 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | CJB203 or KJB235 |
| Credit points: | 24 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $4,080 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $1,914 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $8,208 |
| International unit fee | $8,640 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | CJB302 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 24 |
| Pre-requisite: | CJB203 or KJB235 |
| Coordinators: | Aljosha Karim Schapals | aljosha.schapals@qut.edu.au Stephen Harrington | s.harrington@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This capstone unit models day-to-day operations of a fully-converged, multimedia newsroom (online/audio/video). It aids you in reporting, storytelling and professional training as part of a team publishing material for real audiences. Today’s journalism requires skills to operate in a converged media environment and to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse and fragmented audience. Graduates need to deal with both the instantaneous demands of the 24-hour news and social media landscape, as well as being able to produce far more considered pieces that analyse, educate, inform and entertain. Choosing the right medium for the task, and working to deadlines, is essential. This authentic learning experience in an industry-standard newsroom demands practical, legal, ethical, creative and social issues to be addressed in real time.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Produce quality news and feature content in text, audio and visual mediums for online and broadcast platforms in a converged newsroom to meet strict deadlines.
- Undertake a range of editorial roles in a deadline-driven environment.
- Demonstrate ethical research and inquiry skills by applying professional ethical frameworks to the production of news and feature packages.
- Critically analyse and address platform-specific requirements for news production.
Content
This unit addresses content such as:
- investigative reporting skills
- how to interrogate human sources, data sets and published resources to generate compelling news and features.
- the organisation and workflow of an integrated newsroom.
- multimedia storytelling. How to tell a news or feature story the best way in the best media for each audience.
- refining and repurposing in text, audio or video or in multimedia packages. The above will be covered in seminars and practised and assessed in submissions to the converged newsroom.
Learning Approaches
Students will be given support and guidance as they develop one major story across the course of the semester. Online lectures will provide theoretical focus to the unit objectives, and practical guidance for completing the assessment. Tutorials will be used for hands-on support, and allow students to collaborate and provide peer-support in a newsroom approach that was begun in the second year of this program.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback will consist of in-class student and staff dialogue and feedback from markers on assessment items. Feedback includes dialogue with individual mentors as well as written feedback on assessment.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment is summative and formative. As a model of authentic learning in a capstone unit, the assessment is directed towards aggregating research, analysis and production skills in two assessment (individual) items being a case study and a creative portfolio.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Major Story
A major interactive news feature of approximately 3000 words which showcases your investigative reporting skills as well as your ability to supplement the written word with appropriate audio, video, visual or multimedia elements to enhance the news package. Students are strongly encouraged to present their story in an innovative way, in a way that best suits their topic, and to enhance audience engagement.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Reflective Portfolio
Each student will produce an individual portfolio of material to accompany their major story. This portfolio will include a theoretical justification of use your choice of story and process of execution, a self-reflection on the ethical challenges faced while developing the major story and how this will inform future practice, plus a collection of other components submitted across the course of the semester, including evidence of peer support.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
Resource materials will be available via the unit's Canvas site.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KC40 Bachelor of Communication
- Demonstrate a broad knowledge of the complex relationships among history, economics, politics, technology and culture in communication industries, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Relates to: ULO2, Major Story, Reflective Portfolio - Demonstrate specialised knowledge of the foundational principles in your study area and the complex relationships of evolving communication platforms.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Major Story, Reflective Portfolio - Evaluate the technical requirements that inform planning, problem solving, decision making, and production processes in global and local communication industries.
Relates to: ULO4 - Communicate and apply specialised knowledge of the policies and practices that shape contemporary societies and cultures in the local and global communications sector.
Relates to: ULO3, Major Story, Reflective Portfolio - Demonstrate facility with the diverse technologies of the communications industries.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Major Story, Reflective Portfolio - Apply the theoretical, conceptual, professional and creative skills of the communication industries knowledges in transdisciplinary and multimodal media contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Major Story, Reflective Portfolio - Apply socially responsible and ethical judgements to industry, community and professional practices in the communication industries.
Relates to: ULO3, Major Story, Reflective Portfolio
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | CJB302 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 24 |
| Pre-requisite: | CJB203 or KJB235 |
| Coordinators: | Aljosha Karim Schapals | aljosha.schapals@qut.edu.au Stephen Harrington | s.harrington@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This capstone unit models day-to-day operations of a fully-converged, multimedia newsroom (online/audio/video). It aids you in reporting, storytelling and professional training as part of a team publishing material for real audiences. Today’s journalism requires skills to operate in a converged media environment and to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse and fragmented audience. Graduates need to deal with both the instantaneous demands of the 24-hour news and social media landscape, as well as being able to produce far more considered pieces that analyse, educate, inform and entertain. Choosing the right medium for the task, and working to deadlines, is essential. This authentic learning experience in an industry-standard newsroom demands practical, legal, ethical, creative and social issues to be addressed in real time.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Produce quality news and feature content in text, audio and visual mediums for online and broadcast platforms in a converged newsroom to meet strict deadlines.
- Undertake a range of editorial roles in a deadline-driven environment.
- Demonstrate ethical research and inquiry skills by applying professional ethical frameworks to the production of news and feature packages.
- Critically analyse and address platform-specific requirements for news production.
Content
This unit addresses content such as:
- investigative reporting skills
- how to interrogate human sources, data sets and published resources to generate compelling news and features.
- the organisation and workflow of an integrated newsroom.
- multimedia storytelling. How to tell a news or feature story the best way in the best media for each audience.
- refining and repurposing in text, audio or video or in multimedia packages. The above will be covered in seminars and practised and assessed in submissions to the converged newsroom.
Learning Approaches
Students will be given support and guidance as they develop one major story across the course of the semester. Online lectures will provide theoretical focus to the unit objectives, and practical guidance for completing the assessment. Tutorials will be used for hands-on support, and allow students to collaborate and provide peer-support in a newsroom approach that was begun in the second year of this program.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback will consist of in-class student and staff dialogue and feedback from markers on assessment items. Feedback includes dialogue with individual mentors as well as written feedback on assessment.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment is summative and formative. As a model of authentic learning in a capstone unit, the assessment is directed towards aggregating research, analysis and production skills in two assessment (individual) items being a case study and a creative portfolio.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Major Story
A major interactive news feature of approximately 3000 words which showcases your investigative reporting skills as well as your ability to supplement the written word with appropriate audio, video, visual or multimedia elements to enhance the news package. Students are strongly encouraged to present their story in an innovative way, in a way that best suits their topic, and to enhance audience engagement.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Reflective Portfolio
Each student will produce an individual portfolio of material to accompany their major story. This portfolio will include a theoretical justification of use your choice of story and process of execution, a self-reflection on the ethical challenges faced while developing the major story and how this will inform future practice, plus a collection of other components submitted across the course of the semester, including evidence of peer support.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
Resource materials will be available via the unit's Canvas site.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KC40 Bachelor of Communication
- Demonstrate a broad knowledge of the complex relationships among history, economics, politics, technology and culture in communication industries, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Relates to: ULO2, Major Story, Reflective Portfolio - Demonstrate specialised knowledge of the foundational principles in your study area and the complex relationships of evolving communication platforms.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Major Story, Reflective Portfolio - Evaluate the technical requirements that inform planning, problem solving, decision making, and production processes in global and local communication industries.
Relates to: ULO4 - Communicate and apply specialised knowledge of the policies and practices that shape contemporary societies and cultures in the local and global communications sector.
Relates to: ULO3, Major Story, Reflective Portfolio - Demonstrate facility with the diverse technologies of the communications industries.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Major Story, Reflective Portfolio - Apply the theoretical, conceptual, professional and creative skills of the communication industries knowledges in transdisciplinary and multimodal media contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Major Story, Reflective Portfolio - Apply socially responsible and ethical judgements to industry, community and professional practices in the communication industries.
Relates to: ULO3, Major Story, Reflective Portfolio