Institute of Commercial Management | Qualification Subject

Digital TV And Radio Journalism

ICM Professional Diploma Unit

News and News Values

  • The broadcast industries – history and development
  • Broadcast news – radio
  • Broadcast news TV
  • Differences between print and text news
  • The changing media landscape – broadcasting to narrow casting
  • Greater choice, smaller audiences
  • Demographics
  • Audience research

Writing for Broadcast

  • Conversational English
  • Right choice of words
  • Style guides
  • Accuracy and attribution
  • Short words and short phrases
  • Avoiding cliches, jargon and officialise
  • Officialise
  • Short forms and abbreviations
  • Spelling and punctuation
  • Hype
  • Numbers

The Interview

  • What’s the story?
  • Why the interview?
  • Research and background
  • Approaching an interviewee
  • Picking the location
  • Interview techniques
  • The two way

The Bulletin

  • The five Ws
  • The personal angle
  • Deciding priorities and item lengths
  • Ordering

The Voice and the Voicer

  • Reading the news
  • Articulation and enunciation
  • Voice care
  • Reading speeds
  • Posture and breathing

The Package

  • Finding the story
  • Research and evaluation of content
  • Longer form and extended artefacts

Pictures and Visual

  • Preparation
  • Equipment
  • Selecting the right location
  • Framing the shot and shot selection
  • Graphics
  • Astons, foot of frames
  • Photographs and still images
  • User generated content

Broadcast Sound

  • Sound recording
  • Microphones
  • Ambient sound
  • Creating a sound image or soundscape
  • Wildtracks
  • Music
  • Phone interviews
  • Down the line

Radio Technologies

  • Editing techniques
  • Editing software
  • Radio studios
  • Content management
  • Playout systems
  • Music recording and multi tracking

Television Technologies

  • Cameras
  • Recording media
  • Sound
  • Microphones
  • Video editing software systems
  • The television studio
  • Chromakey and greenscreen technology
  • Virtual studios
  • Traditional studio playout systems
  • File server based content management and playout systems
  • Studio and location prompting systems

Research

  • Internet research – beyond Google
  • Picture and film archives
  • Libraries and text
  • Building contacts, note taking and keeping record

Presenting on Radio

  • Bulletins
  • News magazines
  • Current affairs programmes
  • Music and entertainment
  • Live sequences
  • Phone-ins
  • Music scheduling, formats and branding
  • Presentation styles

Presenting on Television

  • Bulletins
  • News magazines
  • Current affairs programmes
  • Music and entertainment
  • Presenting on location
  • Pieces to camera
  • Studio presentation
  • Vocal skills and voice care

Audio Visual Material on the Web

  • Adapting and reversioning traditional broadcast material
  • Presenting audio and video material on the web – reports and features
  • Text, headlines and intros
  • Audio clips
  • Video clips
  • Headline, links and introductions
  • Online software content management systems – Dreamweaver, Flash
  • Blogging
  • Vlogging
  • Interactivity
  • Feedback

Legal and Physical Constraints

  • Reporting from hazardous environments
  • Risk assessment procedures
  • Health and safety in the studio, office and on location
  • Image rights
  • Copyright
  • Release forms
  • Online regulation
  • International law

Career Development and Employability

  • Employment opportunities for the multi skilled multi platform journalism
  • Further career development
  • Training opportunities

Example Candidate Response Booklet

Example Candidate Response (ECR) Booklets are a source of crucial information for Centres and Candidates as they use real candidate responses. We ask Senior Examiners to comment on five or more responses in terms of why the mark was awarded with commentary about how to improve the answer (if necessary).

Recommended Reading

Main Text:

The Broadcast Journalism Handbook - Hudson, Gary & Rowlands, Sarah (2006) (MacMillan)

Indicative Text:

Alternative Text and Further Reading:

Interviewing for Radio -  Beaman, Jim ( 2000) – (Routledge)

Presenting on TV and Radio - Trewin, Janet (2003) – ( Focal Press)

Broadcast Journalism: Techniques of Radio and Television

News Techniques of Television News - Boyd, Andrew (Revised Edition Feb – 2008) - (Focal Press)

Radio In Context - Starkey, Guy (2004) (Palgrave Macmillan)