P10F Magazine Journalism with Foundation Year BA (Hons)

Skills and experience gained During the course you will: Experience print and online magazine production, benefit from the experience of teaching staff who have worked or continue to work in local, regional, national and international magazines, newspapers and broadcast media, develop your multimedia skills including print, online, radio and video, enjoy our strong professional links which give you the opportunity to build professional contacts and experience and learn about subjects that regularly generate stories of national interest. Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to: 1. Produce publishable, accurate, legally sound, grammatically secure, creative and readable magazine copy from a variety of sources to given outlines and to deadline understanding the differing demands on magazine journalists of changing platforms and audiences and how to react to those demands. 2. Demonstrate a professional and self disciplined approach to your work which you will be able to produce in accordance with professional standards and conventions clearly demonstrating your ability and skills to produce a reflective valuation of your own work. 3. Be able to sub-edit on-screen and hard copy, understand proof correction marks, write headlines, and layout and design a magazine front cover and two page spread using relevant industry software technology to industry entry standards. 4. Have a thorough understanding of the organisation, powers, responsibilities and working of central government within the UK and of laws covering defamation, contempt, copyright, bankruptcy, confidentiality, privacy and other areas essential to effective magazine reporting online and in print. 5. Have an understanding of the magazine industry, its role within society, the economy and its role within economies, publishing as a whole and the media in particular. ...