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, radio and print media). The students shall have theoretical knowledge about important sectors in society, like politics, court, economy and working life, and shall be able to work journalistically on these subjects.

JB1200 Introduction to Journalism and JB1300 Multimedia News Journalism must be passed.

Knowledge

The student has knowledge about

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

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, web and print media)
• 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, tv and print media.
• Presentation of group projects.
• Solving individual and group based tasks, with feedback in groups.

During the course, the students are required to carry out five mandatory tasks, which make up the course requirements. The tasks are practical and theoretical exercises related to the teaching and curriculum texts, with the purpose of strengthening the students' understanding of journalism as a profession.

The tasks are produced for all four media platforms. Some of them are solved in groups, others individually. The content and deadlines of the tasks will be published in Canvas.

The tasks are approved by teachers throughout the term, and at least four out of the five tasks have to be approved before the student is allowed to take her exam. Students who do not pass a given task on the first try, are allowed to hand in an improved version once.

Taking part in the feedback sessions is mandatory. Students who are sick or have another lawful reason for absence, can negotiate an extended deadline for the task with the teacher. If the student does not keep the deadline given in the course plan, or the extended deadline agreed upon with the teacher, the student is not allowed to hand in her task and can as a consequence not take her exam.

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.

Alle hjelpemidler er tillatt så lenge regler for kildehenvisning følges.

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

All exam answers are evaluated by at least one examiner. A random sample of at least 25 % of the answers are evaluated by an external examiner.

Yngve Benestad Hågvar