IA3102:03
Radio News
Townsville
Inadmissable Subject Combination: CA3102
52 lectures/workshops. First semester.
Available to Advanced Diploma of Communications students.
Staff: Ms S Sullivan.
This subject will teach the skills required to prepare local radio news bulletins for an Indigenous radio station. Researching, writing and recording news bulletins that may be broadcast on the Townsville Indigenous station 4K1G will be a major part of the subject. As far as possible a newsroom environment will be simulated, with deadlines and students playing different roles within the news production process. Radio sport and cultural journalism will also be examined. Radio current affairs in an Indigenous media context will also be taught.
Learning Objectives:
- how to research and write a radio news story in an Indigenous context;
- how to identify news sources within the student’s community and maintain regular contact with those sources;
- how to put together and edit a local radio news bulletin relevant to an Indigenous audience;
- how to record and edit interviews and actuality for news;
- a working knowledge of the different roles and language used in a radio newsroom;
- how to prepare a complex current affairs story involving more than one interview.
Assessment by radio news stories (40%); sport and/or cultural stories (20%); one current affairs story (10%); production of a news bulletin (20%); attendance and participation (10%).
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