C08F Sport Journalism with Foundation Year BA (Hons)

Skills and experience gained To help you develop cross-industry editorial and production skills, you will also study the entrepreneurial aspect of the industry and its multimedia demands. You will gain an understanding of the sports and media industries as businesses and social forces. The course aims to widen your knowledge of the history, governance and commercial development of all the worlds major sports. Guided by highly experienced professional journalists, you will be engaged in live match reporting of a range of sports, at a variety of local and regional sporting venues. Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to: 1. Produce publishable, accurate, legally sound, grammatically secure, creative and readable copy from a variety of sources to given outlines and to deadline understanding the differing demands on journalists of changing platforms and audiences and how to react to those demands. 2. Collate, analyse and employ a variety of news and feature gathering techniques. 3. Demonstrate a professional and self-disciplined approach to your work, which should be produced in accordance with professional standards and conventions, combined with the ability and skills to produce a reflective valuation of your own work. 4. Have a thorough understanding of the organisation, powers, responsibilities and working of central government within the UK, and a working knowledge of law covering the courts, defamation, contempt, copyright, bankruptcy, confidentiality, privacy and other areas essential to effective reporting online and in print. 5. Have an overview of the media industry its role within society, the economy and its role within economies and be able to effectively assess the ways in which journalism has developed and the forces which have been applied during the evolutionary process, their origins and outcomes. 6. By the...