Podcasting

This course is part of the Journalism – Mass Media second year, fully functioning media outlet, known as a ‘Working Newsroom'. The focus of the newsroom is production on all Chronicle platforms, including online, print and Riot Radio. The classroom week focuses on learning and practising new content and techniques, with the goal of employing them in an upcoming newsroom week. Today's journalism graduates require an immersive learning experience that exposes them to the broadest set of technologies and skills on a repetitive basis to move seamlessly into industry. This course aims to provide foundational skills in producing podcasts, including developing a concept, conducting in-depth research, interviewing, writing scripts and recording and editing audio. Students will also create narrative structures and incorporate sound design, while also exploring business aspects of podcasting such as identifying audiences, analyzing analytics, marketing and distribution.