Are You a Budding journalist? Take a New Online Distance Learning Course: Understanding Journalism
In these days of mass communication and interactive media, what does it mean to be a journalist? Does it hold the possibility of a career packed with glamour, money and fame? Is it a life lived at hectic pace in the fast lane? Find out in this innovative online course from the NCS Online College.
Edinburgh, Scotland (PRWEB) March 6, 2008
In these days of mass communication and interactive media, what does it mean to be a journalist? Does it hold the possibility of a career packed with glamour, money and fame? Is it a life lived at hectic pace in the fast lane? Or is it a job like any other: steady, sometimes fun, sometimes rewarding - but satisfying, even though stressful?
Innovative education website the New Curiosity Shop (http://www. newcurioshop. com (http://www. newcurioshop. com)), has just listed a new short course for all those thinking of taking up journalism as a career. The course, Understanding Journalism, gives a flavour what it is like to be a reporter, and it describes the different roles in the media that the term, journalist, conveys. An understanding of the law and how it applies to the media is ideally a grounding every journalist needs who works in the media, along with a high sense of accuracy, both in fact-gathering for articles (stories) and in the presentation of them.
Whether you fancy the role of roving reporter, or that of back-scenes and desk-bound gatekeeper, journalism is built on the principle of 'need to know', and may just spark that curiosity within.
Understanding Journalism, written by veteran journalist and lecturer Krys Wareing, has set assignments for the student to tackle, and tutor feedback throughout. If you have harboured a desire to take up journalism or a career, or to just find out what the journalist's world is really like, why not try this short course on Understanding Journalism.
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