Multimedia Journalism: The London Experience University of Westminster - Arts, Business & Sciences Program Summer 2016 July 3-Week - London

This class offers an opportunity to extend and consolidate core journalistic skills - researching, interview and writing news, features and comment - and then develop an understanding of how to apply those skills to create accurate and compelling content for the web.

Students are taught the more technically complex skills required for working online. They learn net research, publishing online, audio and video newsgathering and the basics of multimedia journalism. They are also introduced to basic web content management techniques and get a chance to demonstrate their skills by producing an individual and a group weblog.

The class aims to use London as the focus for a journalistic project that explores one of the world's great capital cities from the perspective of an international student and introduces students to the different ways interactive technologies are changing journalism. Students will be taught techniques for researching, interviewing and writing news, features and comment. They will then adapt and extend those techniques so that they are able to create compelling multimedia content for the web.