Wits Journalism Block Release Courses
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Go Multimedia with Wits Journalism
Our block release courses provide an opportunity for working journalists to expand their skills into online, video, audio or photography … and a few other things:
| Block release courses offered June/July |
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Television and Video Journalism
13 – 24 June 2016
This practical course offers print, online and radio journalists key tools to conceive and produce video journalism for broadcast or online.
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Radio Journalism
13 – 24 June 2016
The course will introduce participants to the techniques of reporting for this rich and fast-paced medium in a range of formats.
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Online Journalism
27 June – 8 July 2016
Aimed at anyone wanting to expand their existing journalism skills and knowledge to digital and social platforms. Learn a rich range of new storytools!
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Photojournalism
30 May – 10 June 2016
Engage with the theory and practical aspects of camera, lightroom and the main genres of photojournalism.
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Introduction to Financial Journalism
30 May – 10 June 2016
The basics of financial journalism, or writing finance for non-financial journalists. |
| 11 July – 17 October 2016: Semester Courses (Weekly Seminars) |
Financial Journalism
For those who want to specialise or any journalist who wants to conquer the language of business and finance. |
Feature Writing
A fun opportunity to write longer form. Flexible areas of interest include arts and culture, travel, health, science and environment. Discuss and practice good writing with colleagues and experienced writers. |
Creative writing for Journalists
This is a writing workshop that shows you how to combine the techniques of fiction with the rigour of journalistic reporting. It explores various genres of non-fiction, including reportage, the personal essay, travel writing, humour, the interview and the profile |
All block release courses require at least two year’s journalism experience and run full-time for 2-weeks. Each certificate course costs R6 000.
Classes combine practical and theoretical work and are all led by experienced professionals.
For details, see www.journalism.co.za or call Judi at 011-7174028 or journinfo@wits.ac.za |
| Development Communication Programme |
- CERTIFICATE A – 24 June – 26 August 2016 (Three one week full-time courses)
- CERTIFICATE B – 15 August – 21 October 2016 (Three one week full-time courses)
This programme targets communicators from all sectors. It questions the chasm between development communicators and the mass media, investigating new ways for interacting with journalists, as well as utilising social media, speeches and publications to directly involve people in development initiatives Each
Certificate costs R15, 000
Contact: linda.sowden@wits.ac.za
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News and Insights
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The Conversation Africa celebrates is 1st birthday
A year ago on May 7 the Conversation Africa website went live to deliver commentary and analysis written by academics and edited by professional journalists. This collaborative venture provides the public with access to new information about cutting-edge research that previously would have remained locked in the academy.
The website, which is updated daily, offers a bumper supply of high-quality, reliable and ethical journalism aimed at the general public and also available for reuse by the media. Since launch, The Conversation Africa has featured 1041 articles written by 880 academics from 197 institutions. Over 90% of the website’s articles have been republished by 70 media outlets, reaching an audience of more than 9.2 million.
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Al Jazeera-Encounters Pitching Forum for African filmmakers
The Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, in partnership with Al Jazeera, is calling African filmmakers to submit proposals for the Al Jazeera-Encounters Pitching Forum taking place in Johannesburg on Saturday, 11 June 2016. The deadline is this Friday, 27 May 2016.
A maximum of 12 African filmmakers will be selected to pitch to Aloke Devichand, a senior commissioning producer in the documentaries department at Al Jazeera English.
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Podcasts
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The Business Buzz – Investment (Sanlam iTrade Competition)
Investing or saving money is key to achieving the financial goals you have set in life. Tonight on The Business Buzz, we speak to experts who help unpack how this can all be done. We also profile Sanlam’s iTrade Competition in a discussion with, Gerhard Lampen, the head of Online Trading at Sanlam.
“For our 60 Second Corporate Sell”, we unpack all the opportunities offered by Investec through their Graduate Recruitment Programme.
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Law Focus – Spy Tapes
This week on Law Focus, we kick off with Legal Hotspots and then discuss the mining silicosis class action court case with John Stephens from Section 27. The High Court in Pretoria found President Jacob Zuma should face the 783 charges of corruption in the ‘spy tapes’ case. Gareth Newham from the Institute for Security Studies discusses this with us.
Our Citizen Stories segment looks at evictions this week.
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The Science Inside #15 – Music
Following the recent decision by the SABC to introduce a 90% local music quota, this week’s episode
You’ll hear about how music affects our brain and emotions and how our hearing is getting worse generation to generation because of all the music we listen to.
Later we speak to Peter Coffin who makes music for an audience of plants.
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