Digital Journalism

By Shahjehan Saleem
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Charges

Rs.22000

Duration

6 weeks

Language

Bilingual

Course Access

Limited

Certificate

On Completion

Digital Journalism

By Shahjehan Saleem
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About this Course

2022 marks a shift in the digital landscape of journalism, where more and more people consume news online as opposed to other alternative mediums. This course examines the realm of digital journalistic content and cultivates critical thinking, while analysing major journalistic issues featured in the
digital world.

What will you learn

By the end of this course, students will be able to understand digital journalism as a discourse, develop a journalistic skillset for a digital audience and examine relevant global and local issues discussed in the digital realm.

Partners

“Ratings don’t last. Good journalism does.” – Dan Rather

Course Outline

Week 1
Introduction to Digital Journalism
This week will cover the basics of journalism and its evolution towards digital mediums. You will also look into current trends surrounding digital journalism and analyse digital content in the present mediascape of Pakistan.
Week 2
Data-Gathering Methods for Digital Journalism
This week will summarize the dos and don’ts of digital news reporting and the tools to aid you in identifying sources and investigating gatekeepers of information. You will also explore tools such as data visualisation and how these can be used to give a big picture view of a topic.
Week 3
Digital News Reporting for Social Media
By the end of this week, you will be able to identify errors in news reporting online. You will uncover valid sources of data and recognize the difference between verified news and viral clickbait. You will also learn how to structure news stories for social media platforms in an informative, cohesive way.
Week 4
Digital Journalism Ethics – The Global Debate
This week will focus on case studies in digital journalism ethics that shook the world and the role journalists played in these. You will also examine the digital journalism ethics, if any, as they are applied by Pakistani Journalists.
Week 5
Introduction to Hub, Hygiene and Hero Content in Journalism
Where do journalism and HHH content coalesce? This week we will explore the writing methods of Hub, Hygiene and Hero Content in journalism and identify the differences of all three in multimedia writing.
Week 6
Multimedia Toolkit
We will conclude the course by understanding the multimedia tools available to you as a digital journalist and with the assessment of your final Digital Journalism projects in the form of multimedia packages or written articles/stories.

Instructors

Shahjehan Saleem

Lecturer,
Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Institute of Science
and Technology

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