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The Diploma of Journalism equips aspiring reporters with the foundational skills needed to succeed in a dynamic and rapidly changing media industry. You will combine practical training and theoretical knowledge with an understanding of ethical and legal responsibilities, while learning to produce compelling, impactful news stories across digital, broadcast and print platforms. This includes investigative journalism and exposure to various contemporary media challenges.Taught by academics with extensive journalistic experience, the diploma also prepares you for further work or study in journalism, communication or media fields, while offering a pathway to the Bachelor of Communication.

Work on the professional practices journalists need to get started. You’ll explore investigative reporting and media law. Build practical skills for multiple formats. Gain industry insights. Graduate ready for entry-level roles or continue your studies.

Diploma of Journalism

Travel Writing

Introduction to Communication and Journalism

Journalism

Research and Writing for Journalism

Writing for Media

Multimedia Journalism

Introduction to Journalism

News Reporting

Feature Writing

Journalism for Solutions and Social Justice

This subject introduces students to solutions-oriented forms of journalism, Students will be encouraged to explore their practice beyond conventional journalism production to explore innovative and interactive storytelling techniques that utilise a suite of media tools to produce web-based journalism.

This subject introduces the global journalism landscape. It draws on the culturally appropriate professional practices of working in transnational spaces, introducing students to the skills required for producing global stories for local audiences, and local stories for global audiences.

Global Journalism: Reporting the World

This subject equips students with the skills to identify patterns in information or source material; to make deeper connections and follow leads; and understand and visualise data. It introduces them to Freedom of Information investigations and journalism as a process of simultaneously uncovering and publishing best available truths.

Skills for the Investigative Reporter

The Critic focuses on arts reviewing. Reviewers play a special role among responses to creative work, beginning public conversations about meaning, value and legacy. This subject explores writing about the arts through reviewing film, literature, video games, and theatre.

The Critic: Arts and Culture

This subject introduces students to public interest news-writing through text based hard news production for print/web.

The Emerging Journalist

Broadcast journalism covers news writing and production for radio, television and other digital platforms. It builds on the audio and visual production skills students were introduced to in the core course and applies them to a professional newsroom context.

Broadcast Journalism

This subject will equip students with essential, practical skills for communicating information about health and science issues and will help them to critically evaluate and interpret health and science information and adapt that for a range of purposes.

Health, Science and Risk Communication

This subject builds on ‘The Emerging Journalist’ to introduce students to longer forms of journalism such as news features, in-depth features and profile writing, and provides students with the skills set to package feature or profile pieces for publication.

Beyond Hard News: Writing for Longer Formats

This subject enables students to develop a critical understanding of ethics and professional practice in the contexts of journalism and strategic communication. It offers a highly practical, &#39;hands on&#39; focus on ethical decision-making and social considerations in the workplace.

Ethical Communication

Students need high level audio and video production skills for a range of communication professions. This course develops literacy in these styles of production and understandings on how they are used to best communicate with stakeholders and publics. Incompatible: 3502LHS Advanced Digital Media Production and 2523LHS Digital Audio Media Production.

Telling Stories with Video and Sound

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