Digital and Mobile Journalism

This subject teaches writing, design and production skills for digital media, with a focus on journalism created on mobile devices, a significant, but still emerging, field of contemporary news production. Students learn how to produce and manage content across a range of digital media platforms and formats (video, audio, image, text); with a key component of the course capturing video and recording audio to industry standard. Techniques taught involve production of both breaking news and rich content non-fiction stories, as well as practices of curating and sharing digital content. Students also learn to edit non-fiction stories and rich media files using a range of software designed for phones, laptops and desktop computers.