How to build a career in journalism? This course is provided by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is Oxford University’s international research centre in the comparative study of news media. In this course you will know everything there is to know about journalism including evolution of digital journalism, political actors and the manipulation of social media audience groups through the use of junk news and other forms of automation, reporting The World, journalism and the Underworld and so on.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Credit: University of Oxford
Course Curriculum
| Module: 01 | |||
| 01 The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series – The ‘King of Whoppers’ and political factchecking in the 2016 US presidential race | 00:37:00 | ||
| 02 There are many roads to power – How to build a career in journalism | 00:44:00 | ||
| 03 Journalism and the Underworld | 00:35:00 | ||
| 04 Restoring trust in news | 00:21:00 | ||
| 05 Is there a future for photojournalists in the digital age? | 00:39:00 | ||
| 06 Not-for-Profit Journalism: A New Model | 00:48:00 | ||
| 07 Is it true? Why questions about the news are changing | 00:34:00 | ||
| 08 What’s happening to our news? | 00:57:00 | ||
| 09 The evolution of digital journalism and tapping into tech for story-telling | 00:34:00 | ||
| 10 Under pressure: the global decline in media freedom | 00:21:00 | ||
| 11 Going Digital. A Roadmap for Organisational Transformation – Panel discussion | 00:30:00 | ||
| 12 Going Digital – A Roadmap for Organisational Transformation | 00:25:00 | ||
| 13 Reporting from Yemen and other inaccessible war zones: risk and how to find out if you’re in trouble | 00:46:00 | ||
| 14 Britain, Brexit and the new political chaos | 00:34:00 | ||
| 15 What’s happening to our media | 00:29:00 | ||
| 16 Broadcasting in the age of Brexit and Trump | 00:25:00 | ||
| 17 Producing news videos that young people care about | 00:27:00 | ||
| 18 The Optician of Lampedusa – opening the world’s eyes to the human story behind mass migration | 00:22:00 | ||
| 19 News in the digital age, and how The Economist fits in | 00:41:00 | ||
| 20 Women on Air – where are the experts? | 00:35:00 | ||
| Module: 02 | |||
| 21 Why Facebook matters and what you need to know about digital | 00:31:00 | ||
| 22 The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy: the polarized media landscape in Syria | 00:22:00 | ||
| 23 Investigative journalism in the age of social news | 00:30:00 | ||
| 24 Newsweek: Legacy title as startup | 00:23:00 | ||
| 25 Freedom of information and the informed citizen | 00:35:00 | ||
| 26 The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series – ‘Reporting Africa: New storytellers, new stories?’ | 00:25:00 | ||
| 27 Digital transformation – the organisation challenges | 00:38:00 | ||
| 28 Is censorship stifling China’s media? | 00:17:00 | ||
| 29 Making an impact with journalism in today’s 24/7 digital news landscape | 00:30:00 | ||
| 30 Old media, new media, and politics in Brazil | 00:15:00 | ||
| 31 Statistics, the BBC and impartiality | 00:38:00 | ||
| 32 Reuters: innovating to stay ahead – from pigeons to multimedia The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series | 00:29:00 | ||
| 33 Catastrophic Success: President Erdogan of Turkey and the opposition media | 00:41:00 | ||
| 34 Reuters: innovating to stay ahead – from pigeons to multimedia The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series | 00:29:00 | ||
| 35 Strength in numbers – how journalists cracked the Panama Papers | 00:25:00 | ||
| 36 From Afghanistan to a more dangerous world | 00:41:00 | ||
| 37 News in the digital age, and how The Economist fits in | 00:43:00 | ||
| 38 The Kidnapping of journalists: reporting from high-risk conflict zones | 00:31:00 | ||
| 39 Saving the media. Capitalism, crowdfunding, and democracy | 00:46:00 | ||
| 40 Covering Syria and the Refugee Crisis | 00:30:00 | ||
| Module: 03 | |||
| 41 The Challenges of Reporting Iran | 00:18:00 | ||
| 42 The Future of the BBC | 01:05:00 | ||
| 43 The evolving practice of foreign correspondents | 00:36:00 | ||
| 44 The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series – Spies and Journalists: The Impossible Relationship | 00:29:00 | ||
| 45 The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series – How Buzzfeed Covers News | 00:41:00 | ||
| 46 The problems of reporting Islamic State | 00:35:00 | ||
| 47 Valuable journalism: what journalists need to know about audiences, but seldom ask | 01:09:00 | ||
| 48 Hurricanes and hashtags: the power dynamics of humanitarian reporting in a digital age | 00:42:00 | ||
| 49 The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series – Navigating the infosmog | 00:26:00 | ||
| 50 The Challenges of Reporting Europe | 00:37:00 | ||
| 51 What is Happening with TV? | 00:42:00 | ||
| 52 How journalism faces a second wave of disruption from technology and changing audience behaviour | 00:54:00 | ||
| 53 Innovators in Digital News Panel Discussion | 00:41:00 | ||
| 54 The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series – BBC Journalism: Future Uncertain? | 00:41:00 | ||
| 55 Cross-border journalism – a new method of collaborative reporting | 00:41:00 | ||
| 56 How to make serious magazine journalism pay | 00:26:00 | ||
| 57 What are the needs and challenges for data visualisation? – Civil society perspective | 00:11:00 | ||
| 58 What are the needs and challenges for data visualisation? – Policy/government perspective | 00:13:00 | ||
| 59 Visual journalism at the BBC – where the web meets TV | 00:34:00 | ||
| 60 What are the needs and challenges for data visualisation? – Media Perspective part one | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module: 04 | |||
| 61 How New Media Became Now Media | 00:24:00 | ||
| 62 How journalism faces a second wave of disruption from technology and changing audience behaviour | 00:46:00 | ||
| 63 Gatekeepers no More: Public Relations gets the better of journalism in the digital age | 00:28:00 | ||
| 64 The Unfinished Media Revolution | 00:32:00 | ||
| 65 Making News for Young Adults? | 00:30:00 | ||
| 66 Post-humanitarianism: Humanitarian communication beyond a politics of pity | 00:34:00 | ||
| 67 Responsible Journalism and National Security in the Age of Big Data part 3 | 00:05:00 | ||
| 68 ‘A walk on the Dark Side’: the changing face of corporate communications | 00:42:00 | ||
| 69 New challenges of reporting on government | 00:30:00 | ||
| 70 Quartz: a mobile-first approach to news | 00:23:00 | ||
| 71 Are the BRICS building a New World Media Order | 00:50:00 | ||
| 72 News in the digital age, and how The Economist fits in | 00:39:00 | ||
| 73 From Pictures to Policy. Reporting Famine and Other Disasters | 00:39:00 | ||
| 74 The FT’s digital strategy | 00:44:00 | ||
| 75 The war for Leveson’s ear | 00:18:00 | ||
| 76 The battle for authenticity- the future of news, current affairs and documentary | 00:18:00 | ||
| 77 Could PR be the saviour of Journalism? | 00:28:00 | ||
| 78 How Mobile Phones are changing journalism practice in the 21st Century | 00:35:00 | ||
| 79 Responsible Journalism and National Security in the Age of Big Data part 2 | 00:13:00 | ||
| 80 The Future of Journalism – John Stackhouse (Editor-in-chief, Globe and Mail, Toronto). | 00:17:00 | ||
| Module: 05 | |||
| 81 Networked journalism and the age of social discovery [2012] | 00:45:00 | ||
| 82 How the BBC reaches digital audiences in South Asia | 00:35:00 | ||
| 83 How new media are changing African journalism | 00:42:00 | ||
| 84 Can data save journalism? How analytics change the newsroom and beyond | 00:33:00 | ||
| 85 The spread of news in the age of social media | 00:32:00 | ||
| 86 Communicating India’s Soft Power: Buddha to Bollywood | 00:44:00 | ||
| 87 Ten years that Shook the Media World [2012] | 00:37:00 | ||
| 88 New publishing models for a modern world: a legacy brand re-invents itself | 00:36:00 | ||
| 89 Data visualisation and the fourth technological revolution? | 00:12:00 | ||
| 90 Syria – what chance of a free media? | 00:31:00 | ||
| 91 The strengths and weaknesses of social media | 00:22:00 | ||
| 92 Responsible Journalism and National Security in the Age of Big Data part 1 | 00:04:00 | ||
| 93 The Media-Industrial Complex: Comparing the influence of Murdoch and Berlusconi? | 00:40:00 | ||
| 94 Creativity and Change in public service broadcasting – managing the tough times | 00:41:00 | ||
| 95 Leaks, Snowden and the Guardian | 00:16:00 | ||
| 96 Framing death – how journalists report the death of public figures | 00:32:00 | ||
| 97 Responsible Journalism and National Security in the Age of Big Data part 5 | 00:06:00 | ||
| 98 The Future of Journalism – Peter Barron (Google) | 00:10:00 | ||
| 99 Challenges for Media Democratization in Brazil and Latin America | 00:36:00 | ||
| 100 How journalism faces a second wave of disruption from technology and changing audience behaviour | 00:50:00 | ||
| Module: 06 | |||
| 101 How data can help journalists to do better storytelling and reporting | 00:36:00 | ||
| 102 Environmental journalism and sustainable development in China | 00:31:00 | ||
| 103 The intelligence agencies and their relations with the media | 00:39:00 | ||
| 104 Moral Maze, Arijit Sen | 00:09:00 | ||
| 105 Berlusconismo and Murdochismo | 00:32:00 | ||
| 106 The Future of Television News | 00:34:00 | ||
| 107 Reporting Pakistan and specialist journalism | 00:23:00 | ||
| 108 Responsible Journalism and National Security in the Age of Big Data part 4 | 00:12:00 | ||
| 109 The Future of Journalism – Natalie Nougayrède (Le Monde) | 00:17:00 | ||
| 110 What Obama’s Elections Have Taught the Media – and the Rest of Us: RISJ/BBC Butler Lecture 2013 | 00:36:00 | ||
| 111 Doing business by making news or making news by doing business? | 01:02:00 | ||
| 112 British Press Coverage of the EU Referendum | 01:36:00 | ||
| 113 Social media and protests in Turkey | 00:18:00 | ||
| 114 Innovation in News Media – a look at the latest innovations shaping the future of news | 00:40:00 | ||
| 115 Reporting the EU: News, Media and the European Institutions launch event at ECFR | 01:03:00 | ||
| 116 The Future of Journalism – Nic Newman (RISJ Research Associate) | 00:14:00 | ||
| 117 Semantic Polling: The 2010 UK General Election and real-time opinion monitoring | 00:56:00 | ||
| 118 A little piracy can be a good thing: what the press can learn from Hollywood | 00:34:00 | ||
| 119 Innovation in Legacy Media – The Challenge for Leaders | 00:30:00 | ||
| 120 A global standard for reporting conflict | 00:32:00 | ||
| Module: 07 | |||
| 121 Ten years that shook the media world [2013] | 00:38:00 | ||
| 122 Writing news for young people | 00:39:00 | ||
| 123 Survival is Success: journalistic online start-ups in Western Europe | 00:28:00 | ||
| 124 The top five dilemmas of news aggregation | 00:23:00 | ||
| 125 A life in a treacherous journalistic environment | 00:41:00 | ||
| 126 Paying the Piper: Rethinking the Economics of Newspaper Journalism | 01:03:00 | ||
| 127 Making a success of a news start-up | 00:43:00 | ||
| 128 Reporting the UK to Germany | 00:18:00 | ||
| 129 A Million Media Now! The Rise of India on the Global Scene | 00:43:00 | ||
| 130 The changing nature of reporting from a war zone | 00:26:00 | ||
| 131 Reporting the Unreported | 00:24:00 | ||
| 132 Future media trends and changing audience behaviour | 00:44:00 | ||
| 133 Plenary panel debate: The Future of Journalism | 00:08:00 | ||
| 134 Open Journalism, Social Media and the England Riots | 00:36:00 | ||
| 135 Numbers are Weapons – A Self Defence Guide | 00:42:00 | ||
| 136 Reporting the Unreported | 00:23:00 | ||
| 137 News in the digital age, and how The Economist fits in | 00:45:00 | ||
| 138 Political Journalism in Transition | 00:49:00 | ||
| 139 The challenges of reporting China to the outside world | 00:39:00 | ||
| 140 Legacy media and technology transitions – what went wrong? | 00:40:00 | ||
| Module: 08 | |||
| 141 The British Media – the view from outside | 00:18:00 | ||
| 142 Silicon Valley and Journalism: Make up or Break up?: Reuters Memorial Lecture 2014 | 01:04:00 | ||
| 143 What are the needs and challenges for data visualisation? – Media Perspective part two | 00:00:00 | ||
| 144 Verifying social media information in real time: from the UK riots to the Boston bombings, via Hurricane Sandy | 00:44:00 | ||
| 145 How Technology can help to Democratise the Media | 00:23:00 | ||
| 146 Women in Journalism – a new kind of glass ceiling? | 00:00:00 | ||
| 147 The Politicisation of Public Broadcasting in Post-Apartheid South Africa | 00:47:00 | ||
| 148 Snowden and the debate on surveillance versus privacy | 00:25:00 | ||
| 149 Moscow is not Russia – reporting Russia’s outback | 00:27:00 | ||
| 150 The global citizens movement and the role of independent journalists | 00:30:00 | ||
| 151 Reporting the UK to a French audience | 00:00:00 | ||
| 152 More News is Good News: Democracy and Media in India | 01:14:00 | ||
| 153 Reporting the financial crisis – lessons for the future | 00:51:00 | ||
| 154 Emotions and Journalism: the relationship between practices of emotional story-telling and objectivity in award-winning journalism | 00:42:00 | ||
| 155 Revolution in Libya – what happened and how the media reported it | 00:25:00 | ||
| 156 The rights of journalism and the needs of audiences | 01:36:00 | ||
| 157 Global Digital Television Switchover: National Differences and Emerging Outcomes | 00:58:00 | ||
| 158 The Challenges of Reporting Foreign Policy | 00:37:00 | ||
| 159 Can TV make history? | 00:18:00 | ||
| 160 The Hyper-Real Culture of the Tabloid Newsroom: Personal Experiences of UK Tabloid Culture | 00:40:00 | ||
| Module: 09 | |||
| 161 Challenges to journalists’ source protection rights in Europe and Australia | 00:51:00 | ||
| 162 News in the Digital Age – How The Economist Fits In | 00:44:00 | ||
| 163 Foreign Correspondence and Fixers: The Missing Link | 00:36:00 | ||
| 164 Feeding the Financial Beast: Challenges of Reporting in Rumour Hungry Markets | 00:27:00 | ||
| 165 Politicians and Journalists: Friends or Foes? | 00:20:00 | ||
| 166 From Coffeehouses to Online Communities: How the Public Engages with the News on the Web | 00:29:00 | ||
| 167 Business Models and their Uses in Media Companies | 00:36:00 | ||
| 168 Networked Journalism and the Age of Social Discovery [2011] | 00:56:00 | ||
| 169 Making serious TV for Large Audiences | 00:44:00 | ||
| 170 Reporting the Arab Spring | 00:40:00 | ||
| 171 The Changing face of Art Journalism (1945-2011) | 00:45:00 | ||
| 172 In the Pursuit of Purity, reflections on the BBC | 00:56:00 | ||
| 173 Telling a Story with Pictures – a Case Study from Cuba | 00:47:00 | ||
| 174 Beyond Authoritarianism: Ideologies and communication technologies in contemporary Ethiopia | 00:45:00 | ||
| 175 How Old Media are Using New Media | 00:27:00 | ||
| 176 Copyrights and Copywrongs: Protection of News Copyright in the Digital World | 00:52:00 | ||
| 177 Investigative Journalism in the Age of Digital Reproduction | 00:37:00 | ||
| 178 Al-Jazeera in North Africa and the MIddle East: the biggest media story ever? | 00:32:00 | ||
| 179 Data Protection: A Growing Threat to Free Speech in the Web 2.0 Era? | 00:52:00 | ||
| 180 Wikileaks and Beyond: the future of open journalism | 00:38:00 | ||
| Module: 10 | |||
| 181 Collaboration as the future of news generation and distribution | 00:29:00 | ||
| 182 Media Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe: between political and business pressures | 00:24:00 | ||
| 183 Soft News, Hard Sell: Journalism in Neo-Liberal India | 00:47:00 | ||
| 184 Values in Context: Journalists’ understanding of press freedom and press responsibility. A 4 country comparison of Bulgaria, Poland, Namibia and South Africa | 00:54:00 | ||
| 185 The Weekend Newspaper: still some life in it? | 00:21:00 | ||
| 186 Wikileaks and freedom of expression | 00:36:00 | ||
| 187 Fragmentation: the end of liberal journalism? | 00:42:00 | ||
| 188 The Berlusconi experience. A new model of politics for the 21st century? | 00:39:00 | ||
| 189 The crisis facing the business models of print media around the world | 00:39:00 | ||
| 190 53 Years of Media and Politics | 01:24:00 | ||
| 191 Reporting Politics to a Mass Audience | 00:24:00 | ||
| 193 World Wide Research | 00:52:00 | ||
| 194 Reuters Memorial Lecture 2008 | 00:29:00 | ||
| 195 Government and press relations in South Africa | 00:40:00 | ||
| 196 The use of citizen journalism by traditional media | 00:48:00 | ||
| 197 The Future of Journalism | 00:31:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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