Learn the Skills Required for Working as a Journalist: A Free Course

Learn the skills required for working as a journalist and the key practices and procedures in journalism and reportage. This ALISON free online Diploma in Journalism will be of great interest to any learner who would like a career in journalism and to media professionals who work in the areas of communications and reportage.

Diploma in Journalism Course Content

The course includes the following topics:

Key elements of the journalistic process;
What the basic approaches to writing the feature story are;
What different types of feature stories there are;
How to identify stories which are new, unusual or significant;
How to distinguish between a big news story and a small one;
The different roles and responsibilities in a newsroom;
How to use story weighting to assess a story’s value and newsworthiness;
Online risks and threats affecting the modern journalist;
Crowdsourcing, distributed and open source reporting and the use of social media in journalism;
Tools, techniques, and approaches to storytelling known as data journalism
Newspaper and magazine types;
The relationship between the media and politics.

Certification

To qualify for your official ALISON Diploma, Certificate or PDF you must study and complete all modules and score 80% or more in each of the course assessments.