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Australian College of Journalism & Cengage Education (formerly Thomson Education Direct) 

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Course Number: 89700 
Pay only: $1,668 $1,501 
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Estimated hours of study = 105 
Months 
12 
18 
Hours of study required per week 
2
1.5
 What you need to know 
Previous study required: 
Completion of the Freelance Journalism course is required to take this course. 
Exam details: 
This course includes 5 written assessments that you complete as part of your course work and then forward to your tutor. 

Once your tutor has marked and graded your work they will send it back to you with their comments. 

Completion of your course:
Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Cengage Education (formerly Thomson Education Direct) Advanced Freelance Journalism Certificate. 

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subjects covered 

Professional freelancing techniques 

  • Newsletters and fund raising letters 
  • Interviews and interview skills 
  • Press conference interviews 
  • Advanced news skills 
  • Regarding freelance work as a business 

 

Public Relations 

  • Introduction to public relations 
  • An editor's view of PR 
  • Political PR Media relations 
  • Public relations as a business 
  • Placing a story 
  • Costing your campaign 
  • Determining your approach 
  • Media release 
  • Developing publicity ideas 
  • Getting your message across on radio 
  • How to cover a social round 

Photo journalism 

  • News & feature assignments 
  • Sports assignments 
  • Picture story assignments 
  • New technological advances 
  • What editors want 
  • Developing the photo feature 
  • Equipment 
  • Selling a package 
  • Techniques of photojournalism 

Writing for different markets 

  • Writing about food 
  • Writing for the pet market 
  • The "how to" of dance criticism 
  • Techniques and skills review 

 

Travel writing 

  • The craft of travel writing 
  • Write for the reader 
  • Ingredients of a good travel article 
  • Getting commissioned 
  • The local market 
  • Popular types of travel articles 

Broadcasting fundamentals 

  • Writing TV and radio news 
  • Getting "news ready" 
  • Writing for TV 
  • Television networks 
  • Television networks and what they want 
  • One off scripts, series, mini series and serials 

Writing reviews and publishing fundamentals 

  • Music, theatre and restaurant reviews 
  • Movie reviews Writing a book 
  • Getting published 
  • Agreements; literary agents and authors 
 
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