Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Radio News and Current Affairs
  • Unit Code

    BRO5113
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit provides students with practical preparation for working in radio and on-line newsrooms. It covers newsroom software and operations, including gathering, writing, sub-editing and compiling news items for radio, and news and current affairs websites. Students will be expected to undertake extensive fieldwork involving assignments to major location stories.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit requires a minimum commitment of four days a week, full time.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded BRO4113

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse current practice in radio and online news and current affairs.
  2. Identify when legal or ethical advice should be sought regarding a story.
  3. Operate radio news software.
  4. Plan, produce and present news bulletins.
  5. Plan, research, script and produce audio reports for news/current affairs.
  6. Prepare, conduct and edit audio interviews for news/current affairs.

Unit Content

  1. The radio newsroom.
  2. Writing news and current affairs stories.
  3. Interviewing for news and current affairs.
  4. Telephone interviewing.
  5. Bulletin structure.
  6. Providing content for on-line news rooms.
  7. Journalism ethics and codes of practice.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Studio workshop, with practical exercises and feedback following formal instruction.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for performance and/or practical based units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
WorkshopRostered News Shifts
Creative WorkEmerging Issues Documentary
AssignmentCurrent Affairs Report

Text References

  • Phillips, G., & Lindgren, M. (2006). Australian broadcast journalism. (2nd ed.). Melbourne, Australia: OUP.
  • Alysen, B. (2006). The electronic reporter: Broadcast journalism in Australia. Sydney, Australia: UNSW Press.
  • Rudd, J. (2007). 100 hot ways to write TV scripts. Bunbury, Australia: Word Hot Shop.
  • ABC Legal Department. (2002). ABC all media law handbook. Sydney, Australia: ABC Books.

Website References


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Radio News and Current Affairs
  • Unit Code

    BRO5113
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit provides students with practical preparation for working in radio and on-line newsrooms. It covers newsroom software and operations, including gathering, writing, sub-editing and compiling news items for radio, and news and current affairs websites. Students will be expected to undertake extensive fieldwork involving assignments to major location stories.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit requires a minimum commitment of four days a week, full time.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded BRO4113

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse current practice in radio and online news and current affairs.
  2. Identify when legal or ethical advice should be sought regarding a story.
  3. Operate radio news software.
  4. Plan, produce and present news bulletins.
  5. Plan, research, script and produce audio reports for news/current affairs.
  6. Prepare, conduct and edit audio interviews for news/current affairs.

Unit Content

  1. The radio newsroom.
  2. Writing news and current affairs stories.
  3. Interviewing for news and current affairs.
  4. Telephone interviewing.
  5. Bulletin structure.
  6. Providing content for on-line news rooms.
  7. Journalism ethics and codes of practice.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Studio workshop, with practical exercises and feedback following formal instruction.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for performance and/or practical based units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
WorkshopRostered News Shifts
Creative WorkEmerging Issues Documentary
AssignmentCurrent Affairs Report

Text References

  • Phillips, G., & Lindgren, M. (2006). Australian broadcast journalism. (2nd ed.). Melbourne, Australia: OUP.
  • Alysen, B. (2006). The electronic reporter: Broadcast journalism in Australia. Sydney, Australia: UNSW Press.
  • Rudd, J. (2007). 100 hot ways to write TV scripts. Bunbury, Australia: Word Hot Shop.
  • ABC Legal Department. (2002). ABC all media law handbook. Sydney, Australia: ABC Books.

Website References


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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