Research
Broadcasting Journalist
Education
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(1) Graduate and Trainee schemes are incredible
hard to find
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Broadcasting companies like ITV and BBC offer
apprenticeships (Over 18)
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(2) BBC’s Journalism Trainee Scheme
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(4) ITV apprenticeship. Nationally-recognised
qualification in Business and Admin, broadcast production, digital marketing
and journalism.
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(3) 4 talent investigative journalism programme
Qualifications
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(1) Degree in journalism
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(1) Bachelor’s Degree in specialist subject
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(1) Possible to get into journalism without a
qualification but is highly recommended
to have one
Personal
skills
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(5) Interest for your specialist subject
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(5) A curious nature
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(5) Thinking outside the box
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(5) Good communicator
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(5) Good listener/speaker
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(5) Ability to deadlines
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(5) Change priorities
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(5) Determination and persistence
Inter-personal
skills
· (6) Active listener
· (6) Comfortable talking to strangers
· (6) Navigate sensitive topics
· (6) Resourcefulness
· (6) Professional writing
Pay and
conditions
According to National Council for the Training of
Journalists (NCTJ) for:
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(7) Newspaper Journalist: £22,250
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(7) Trainee Reporter: £12,000-£15,000
-Depending on local, regional or national paper
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(7) Salaries for journalist with:
-Up to five years’ experience: £25,000
-Decade or more experience: £35,000-£40,000
Career
development
Successful journalist can:
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(1) Leading a group of reporters
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(8) Become part of an editorial team
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Different types of Journalism:
-Broadcast Journalism
-Communications
-Foreign Correspondent
-Freelance Writing
And more…
Bibliography
Education
Inter-personal skills
Pay and Condition
Career Development
Script for presentation
Education
Within the field journalism, Graduate and Trainee Schemes are
very hard to find, however big TV companies like BBC, ITV and 4 Talent offer
apprenticeships to over 18 year olds which offer journalism experiences as well
as other experience which benefit working within their company for example, The
BBC offer four different types of journalism Trainee Scheme and apprenticeships
which cover different parts of journalism within the BBC. This includes the
journalism Trainee Scheme where it offers aspiring journalists the opportunity
to involve themselves in the BBC’s high quality training. They also offer a
yearlong programme for people with disabilities (Hidden or Visible) which gives
them a chance as well to enter the journalism industry. ITV offer a nationally
recognised qualification in Journalism as well as other important subjects
which would help others become involved with ITV. 4 Talent get applicants to
work with their independent partner production companies for 6 months. They
take part in training session with leading professionals.
Qualifications
To be involved in journalism, you would need a degree in
journalism or have a qualification in the specific specialist subject that you
want to be a journalist in also, to have 5 A*-C GCSEs including English and
maths. It is possible to get into
journalism without any relevant qualifications or none at all however, it is
very hard to get into journalism without any qualifications so, it is
recommended to have some when getting into the field of journalism.
Personal Skills
To become a journalist, you need a good set of personal
skills to help you become successful and good at your job for instance, having
a genuine interest for your specialist subject is important as you would be
able to explain what you’re writing about better and you’ll more than likely
enjoy what you’re writing about than writing about something you have no idea
in. You should be able to think outside the box and see what more information
can be valuable towards what you’re writing. Other personal skills included are
also very important skills into becoming a journalist.
Inter-personal skills
Inter-personal skills means the ability to communicate or interact well with other people. In the
field of journalism, you are going to have to be able to talk about sensitive
subjects with people sometimes and make sure you are able to deliver it well and
sensibly in your writing as well as asking appropriate questions to interviewee.
Pay
and conditions
The National Council for the Training of
Journalist tells aspiring journalist information about jobs, courses and
everything you need to find information about journalism. They have approximate
figures on how much certain jobs and traineeships.
Career
development
Becoming journalist can build your confidence with others. It
can teach you how to lead and how to be quick on your feet. There’s many paths
journalism can take you. The most common and known journalist role is a
broadcasting journalist. You may see them on the news on known broadcasting
channels like the BBC or ITV. Less known roles like freelancing journalism are
paid for each piece of work they do and are not owned by any organisation.
Conclusion
In conclusion, being a journalist can take you
to many places and help you build your confidence and communication skills in
many aspects for example, it can help with talking to strangers, different
writing styles for different contexts and writing skills. It is the career path
I would like to take because there are so many opportunities involved and becoming
a broadcasting journalist is one that I am very interested in.
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Magazine Double Page Spread Analysis
Magazine Front Cover Analysis
Design Practitioners
April Greiman
[1] April Greiman ,who was born 22 March 1948, is a designer. She is recognized as one of the first designers to embrace computer technology as a design tool, April Greiman is also credited, along with early collaborator Jayme Odgers, with establishing the ‘New Wave’ design style in the US during the late 70's and early 80's.She heads Los Angeles-based design consultancy Made in Space. Her art combines her Swiss design training with West Coast postmodernism. April Greiman has won lots awards, which includes the Medal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Chrysler Award for Innovation. She has also published several books, such as April Greiman: Floating Ideas into Space and "Something from Nothing" Her notable work includes Ron Resek Poster, P.C. World Magazine Cover and Work space '87 Poster. As a student of Armin Hofmann and Wolfgang Weingart, she was influenced by the International Style and by Weingart's introduction to the style later known as New Wave, an aesthetic less reliant on Modernist heritage. [2] She rejected the belief among many contemporary designers that computers and digitalisation would compromise the International Style; instead, she exploited pixelation and other digitisation "errors" as integral parts of digital art, a position she has held throughout her career.
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Noma Bar
[1] Avinoam Noma Bar, born in 1973, is an Israel-born graphic designer, illustrator and artist. His work appears in newspapers, magazines, book covers, ad campaigns and in his own books. He has published over 550 illustrations which has been involved and published in various publishing companies such as The Guardian, The New York Times, Time Out London,fThe Observer, The Economist and Wallpaper. He won a Yellow Pencil Award at the Design and Art Direction (A&AD) formally known as British design and Art Direction. This is a educational charity which helps promote excellence in art, design and advertising. Noma Bar won the award for his series of Don Delillo book covers, who he created with London design studios 'It's nice that'. His most notable work is 'Saddam Hussein' it's been quoted that his work is [2] "ingenious and uncanny illustrations have taken portraiture into a new dimension"
Magazine: Creative Times
Individual Final Product
Front Cover
Advertisement and Contents Page
First Double Page Spread
Second Double Page Spread
Back Page
Group Final Product
Front Cover
Advertisement and Contents Page
First Double Page Spread
Second Double Page Spread
Third Double Page Spread
Back Cover
Evaluation
Introduction
The objectives of this task were to explore job roles within
the publishing industry which included roles like Journalists and Art
Directors, to form a team to discuss and design a magazine. Using our research we were able to
show an understanding of designers and other roles; we were able to show our
understanding of the magazines layout and design conventions. Although working
in a team we produced individually and thought carefully about the layout and
design.
Research
During this task, I was able to find out about different job
roles within the publishing industry and examples of people who worked on them
for example; researching different types of journalist, who they work for and
what else they do apart from their known job role in the industry. Researching
designers was a bit difficult as the internet showed more about their art work
rather than information about themselves so I was searching through many art
directors and art editors to find a limited amount of information about the
ones I found. On InDesign, I was searching through different templates and
figuring out how I could change the layout to make it my own. I thought about
how magazines differentiate from other magazines and I picked different
features from some magazines I saw and featured them into my magazine but
changed it slightly to make it my own design. All my research was secondary
research as I did not have the resources to find the research myself. Majority
of my research was found on Wikipedia but some of the information was found on
websites made or designed by them. In my group, we decided to make one article
about a job role we were interested in and another article about a job role
which is out of our comfort zone. This way, we had a variation of different job
roles within our magazine.
Planning
Planning as a group, we were very distant as we focused more
on our own magazine designs then making sure all three of our magazines have
features which were consistent on each page of each of our magazines. What we
needed to improve on is our communication within the group so we know what to
keep the same. However, the moments when we did have a conversation about the
magazine we were able to feature different articles so we know we were not
making articles about the same topics. I believe that with more teamwork and
conversation within the group we would be about to have more consistency within
our work the final finished product. I was getting used to the programme I was
using [InDesign] so I was making a lot of trial and error which wasted majority
of valuable time. However, I had completed a lot of research on different
magazines and was able to create a basic layout for the magazine I was
creating. A target for myself is to act on constructive criticism that others
give me.
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Production
The problems I had identified it that our team did not
communicate as much as we hoped and in our group it ended up being an
individual project that we merged together at the end. What we had done to
identify the problem is to change features of our magazine pages to be able to
match pages in our magazine project. I believe that my knowledge of InDesign
was limited but had expanded once I had experience on the programme. Time
management wasn’t that bad it could have been improved if I was able to have
the software at home and finish unfinished work at home or if I stayed after
timetable hours in the library to complete unfinished work. Overall, we decided to not include one of the teammates work because they weren't consistent and were falling behind in work. We tried to get they to catch up but by the deadline their work was not sufficient enough to combine with the rest of the group. So, I would improve the way teamwork is dealt. I would make checkpoints to see where everyone is in the project and have better time management.
Product
Our target audience for our magazines is 18+. We decided to
have this age group because we were targeting people coming out of university
or people looking for different career plans and paths. This means this
magazine is for a niche audience. As this is directed for a niche audience
major publishing companies are more likely to produce this magazine because smaller
publishing companies may not have the resources to produce and publish this. I
believe the magazine especially the front cover are unconventional because even
though we have a person taking a picture of a sunset, they are not looking right
into the camera. Usually on front covers, the model is visible and looking at
the camera however; the front cover we chose to use is mysterious and they are
a silhouette and we don’t know what they are taking a picture of but it is more
than likely the horizon in the background. I believe that the magazine subverts to the conventions of magazines because the model on the front cover is looking away from the camera and isn't visible which isn't the norm because usually the model is very visible and looking directly and the camera. However, it also conforms to the convention because it includes things like mastheads and page numbers on each page, taglines and majority of thing a normal magazine would usually work.
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