Social media is a vital tool for sharing news content. This course will educate students on creating newsworthy pieces and how to optimize great content for social media channels. From identifying stories and angles, through to creating marketable digital content that secures high engagement, the course also covers headline writing and SEO, fact-checking programs and publishing techniques – all the elements required for optimal results.

Do you post on social media? Do you have a passion for storytelling, or would you like to write about current events with the potential to make profit? In this course, you will learn to create the right content for diferent social media platforms. This course teaches the basic tools, how to make the most of them to optimise content on each platform

Modern-day media organisations rely on all-round journalists who can write, shoot videos, and cover news live, all of which can be done with one tool - the smartphone. From script writing through to shooting, voiceover and editing, this course will empower students to harness the smartphone and produce complete reports.

 Visual storytellers often ask the question ’what story am I trying to tell, and how can I tell it more effectively using the resources at hand’? From directing and producing, to film-making and cinematography, this course covers everything from how to optimise tools from basic equipment to professional cinematography techniques, and video editing using Premiere Pro.

Fake news and rumours are not a new issue – but controversy has increased with the emergence of social media as a news source for a large segment of the public. The circulation of fake news has the potential to create major security issues and even change the course of history. This course will enable journalists and students to identify and fact-check fake news using the best available technologies, in addition to applying the logic of journalism and narration when dealing with news, photos, and videos.