Professional Journalism Foundation

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: What is journalism

Lecture 3: History of journalism

Lecture 4: Types of journalism

Lecture 5: The path of a journalist

Chapter 2: Essential Rules Of Journalism

Lecture 1: Ask question, dig for the story and master the language

Lecture 2: Spelling matters, know thy publication and contacts are your career

Lecture 3: Once it's off the record keep it that way, three is a golden number

Lecture 4: Editors are teachers, mind the wood count and deadlines are holy

Lecture 5: Know the law, always do research and have it outlined

Lecture 6: Keep and file everything, guard your vices and burnout is a rahid, fanged monkey

Chapter 3: Element Of Good Journalism

Lecture 1: Journalism's first obligation is to the truth

Lecture 2: Its first loyalty is to citizen

Lecture 3: Its essence is a discipline of verification

Lecture 4: Its practitioners must maintain an independence from those they cover

Lecture 5: It must serve as an independent monitor of power

Lecture 6: It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise

Lecture 7: It must strive to keep the significant interesting and relevant

Lecture 8: It must keep the news comprehensive and proportional

Lecture 9: Its practitioners must allowed to exercise their personal conscience

Lecture 10: Citizen too have right and responsibilities when it comes to the news

Chapter 4: Journalism Ethics And Standard

Lecture 1: Journalistic ethics and standard

Lecture 2: Evolution and purpose of codes of journalism

Lecture 3: Codes of practices

Lecture 4: Accuracy and standard for factual reporting

Lecture 5: Slander and libel consideration

Lecture 6: Harm limitation principles

Lecture 7: Ethics and standard in practice

Lecture 8: Journalist perspective and releasing unbiased factual news

Lecture 9: Genres ethics and standards

Lecture 10: Relationship with freedom of press

Lecture 11: Variation, violations,and controversies

Lecture 12: Taste , decency and acceptability

Lecture 13: Campaigning in the media

Chapter 5: Five Tips To Becoming A Successful Journalist

Lecture 1: Good writing skills

Lecture 2: Practical communication skills

Lecture 3: Research your topic

Lecture 4: Knowledge in journalism

Lecture 5: Create a digital portfolio

Chapter 6: Five Tips For Reporters Entering The Digital Journalism World

Lecture 1: Build your own brand

Lecture 2: Be good story tellers, but also understand the business

Lecture 3: Being a curator

Lecture 4: Engage with your community

Lecture 5: Ask difficult question

Chapter 7: Journalism Skills Every Modern Journalist Needs To Have

Lecture 1: Interviewing skills and reporting skills

Lecture 2: Ethics and writing skills

Lecture 3: Digital journalism skills and investigative reporting

Lecture 4: Mobile journalism skills and editing

Lecture 5: Social media and video journalism skills

Chapter 8: Tips For Engaging With The Media

Lecture 1: Be strategic and take advice – you're not alone

Lecture 2: Do not expert journalists to share your agenda and do your research

Lecture 3: Give journalist notice and have a clear messages and deliver it in plain english

Lecture 4: Bee interesting and consider the time factors

Lecture 5: Stay in your comfort zone and remember journalists are humans

Chapter 9: A Journalist's Guide To Cognitive Bias (And How To Avoid It)

Lecture 1: Ikea effect and sunk cost fallacy

Lecture 2: Uniqueness bias

Lecture 3: Negative bias

Lecture 4: Framing bias

Lecture 5: The anchoring bias

Lecture 6: Fading effect bias

Chapter 10: Digging Deep: Strategies For Investigation

Lecture 1: Public record projects

Lecture 2: Strategies for working with sources

Lecture 3: On finding stories