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Learning Outcomes

1. Explain key concepts and debates in journalism and media studies.
2. Analyse news media texts from local and global perspectives.
3. Apply journalistic techniques and conventions, such as research, interviewing and verification, to write or produce ethical and creative news content.
4. Synthesise analytical and research skills to articulate the functions of news media in society from local and global perspectives.

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Mutual Exclusions

You cannot enrol in this unit as well as the following:

HEJ255 News Contemporary Practice and Analysis

HEJ355 News Contemporary Practice and Analysis

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