Overview
Qualification Grading Type
Graded
Grade Descriptors
- GD3-Application of skills
- GD4-Use of information
- GD5-Communication and presentation
- GD6-Autonomy/Independence
- GD7-Quality
This unit is expiring
The expiry date of this unit is 31/07/2025.
Graded
Understand how to source stories and pictures for a local newspaper, news website or broadcast.
Explain a range of ways in which new stories can be sources for a local newspaper, news website or broadcast.
Understand how to develop a network of contacts and the importance of establishing professional working relationships with a range of key contacts.
Explain how a network of contacts can be developed.
Suggest a range of useful contacts.
Analyse the potential usefulness of these contacts to a local news journalist, with reference to a variety of specific published news articles.
Explain and evaluate the importance to a new journalist of professional working relationship with a range of key contacts.
Source and write an original, ‘new’ news story and accompanying pictures for a local newspaper or news website.
Source an original news story for a local newspaper or news website, outlining the ideas and process followed.
Source appropriate accompanying pictures for own story.
Write an original news story for a local newspaper or website, following news writing conventions and writing to length.
Understand the newsworthiness of own news story and its likely readership/audience.
Explain and evaluate the newsworthiness of own news story.
Analyse own news story to identify its likely readership/audience.
Understand how to ‘follow up’ news story with possible further reports and/or features for a local newspaper or news website.
Produce a list of potential follow-up suggestions for own news story.
Explain how these could be approached to produce further reports and/or features for a local newspaper or news website