JB1400 Multimedia News Journalism 2 Course description

The students shall develop further knowledge and skills acquired in the previous term, and they shall have a good command of the news reportage as a genre on distinct media platforms (web, tv and radio). The students shall have theoretical knowledge about important sectors in society, like politics and court, and shall be able to work journalistically on these subjects.

JB1200 Introduction to Journalism must be passed.

In addition, the Bachelor of Journalism has general progression rules:

Each study year must normally be passed before a student can start on the following year. The first study year must be passed before participation in the internship course is possible, and to pass the internship course is prerequisite for further studies. 

Knowledge

The student has knowledge about

• journalism on crime, court and politics
• The Freedom of Information Act and access to public journals
• distinct news genres and norms for journalistic language
• rhetoric and argumentation
• crisis journalism
• distinctive features of different media platforms (tv, radio and web)

Skills

The student

• is able to use the news reportage as a genre
• can cover stories on crime and court, politics, economy and working life
• has developed her journalistic-linguistic skills further
• can produce news for several media platforms (tv, radio and web)
• can do journalistic research online and in social media

General competance

The student can

• work individually and in teams with developing journalistic products
• evaluate her own and others' journalistic work on the basis of source-critical, rhetorical and press-ethical principles
• reflect critically upon journalism on important fields in the Norwegian society

The course is to a large extent based on active learning. The students work in the following ways:

• Individual reading of the curriculum.
• Seminars and plenary lectures.
• Production for online paper, radio and tv.
• Presentation of group projects.
• Solving individual and group based tasks, with feedback in groups.

The exam is a three day home exam consisting of two parts: a theoretical/analytical, curriculum-based paper and one of the course requirements that the student has carried out during the term. The exam shall be written in Norwegian, as the course deals with news journalism in Norwegian. Other Scandinavian languages may be accepted by application but only for the theoretical/analytical paper. The exam is given a joint evaluation. Candidates who do not pass or have lawful reasons for absence, may sign up for a new and postponed exam.

The exam is graded by letters from A to E for passed and F for failed.

All exam answers are evaluated by at two examiners. A random sample of at least 25 percent of the answers are evaluated by an external and internal examiner. The internal examiner’s assessment of all papers shall be based on the external examiner’s assessment.