Module Code - Title:
JM4042
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LIMERICK VOICE DIGITAL NEWS PROJECT 2
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
Limerick Voice Digital News Project 2 aims to be a group capstone piece for journalism students where students will continue with Limerick Voice website and digital platforms and also work on producing a newspaper or magazine. It will enhance their ability to work in a team and to meet deadlines. It will allow students to further develop problem solving skills.
Syllabus:
Students will continue the established news room structure with students assigned various roles such as editors, news features and sports reporters from Limerick Voice Digital News Project 1. They will continue to develop Limerick Voice digital content and work towards produce a the local newspaper Limerick Voice. The final submission will include a statement from each student about what s/he wrote, details of his or her role in the production, and contacts for the sources for the written pieces.
Assessment will be by the individual students' contributions to the final project.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
* demonstrate an understanding of the concept of a producing a local newspaper of magazine.
* produce news, sport and feature stories to a professional level for multi platform publication.
* edit these stories and source photographs and video content
* design and lay-out newspaper and website
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
* demonstrate their ability to work in a team and their appreciation of the role played by each contributor to magazine/local newspaper and multi media news product.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module consists of laboratory classes where the students will actively learn how to develop a concept for the online publication.
The students will develop the structures of a newspaper and assign themselves various news-room roles.
The students will actively learn how to produce a newspaper by acting to strict deadlines by taking on the roles and responsibilities of different editorial team members.
Students will be engaged in the active learning of what makes up a good news site and how to produce it to a strict deadline.
The Senior Journalism Lecturer and Teaching Assistant will supervise this exercise in advisory roles.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Bull, Andy (2010)
Multimedia Journalism
, London Sage
Brock, G (2013)
Out of Print Newspapers, Journalism and the business of news in the digtal age
, Kogan Page Limited
Mair J. et al (2016)
Last Words@ How can Journalism survive the decline of print
, Abramis Academic Publishing
Shufflebotham R (2008)
InDesign C3 in Easy Steps
, Longman
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BAJDCOUFA - JOURNALISM AND DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
Kathryn.Hayes@ul.ie