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WFTM Weekly Timetable

Tues: TUTORIAL 9:35 - 10:20

Wed: SCREENING 14:10 - 15:50

Thurs: LECTURE 07:45 - 8:30

Fri: LECTURE 10:30 - 11:15

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WFTM: First Term Breakdown

Wk1: The Nature of News (Feb 11-15)- Defn’s, biases, journalistic objectivity, categories of news

Wk2: News Process (Feb 18-22)- Process: The story, inverted pyramid- Craft: The feature, interviews, accounts, WSJ style

Wk3: New Journalism (Feb 25-29)- Breaking the mould- Rock journalism

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WFTM: First Term Breakdown

Wk4: The New Media (Mar 3-7)- Blogs, podcasts, YouTube and the amateurisation of everything

Wk5: Advertising (Mar 10-14)- Advertising an introduction- Consumer culture

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The Nature of News

Reading: Nel, F 2005, Writing for the media in South Africa. USA: Oxford University Press. (Ch 3 Exploring the nature of news)

COLLECT from Office READ for Lecture on FridayBRING to Tutorial on Tuesday

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Defining “News”

What is this thing called “News?”

How is it useful to us?

What work does it do?

Why do we need it?

Who profits?

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The Tailoring of News

Williams:- tailor to audience-provoke-inform

ideology

the system of ideas, ideals and manner of thinking characteristic of a group, social class, or individual

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Eddie Adams - Saigon Feb 1, 1972 - General Nguyen Ngoc Loan killing Vietcong operative Nguyen Van Lem

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Eddie Adams - Saigon Feb 1, 1972 - General Nguyen Ngoc Loan killing Vietcong operative Nguyen Van Lem

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Nick Ut - 8 June, 1972 - Nine-year-old girl, Kim Phuc, fleeing her village after a napalm attack

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3 Obvious Biases

Immediacy

Interest

Significance

Time News has a shelf-life- for whom?

Who? News has an appeal- to whom?

Why? News has an aspect, an angle- to whom?

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AUDIENCE

Newspapers must make a profit

The audience / the paper’s particular ‘public’is the most important element of the news process

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