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This module is designed to enable you to critically explore and develop the concepts of Innovation and entrepreneurship in journalism. We will look at the current models for funding and developing journalism and the projects they create. Do commercial pressures have an impact journalistic impartiality and will funding driven models change this?

The fast changes in platforms for content delivery means the style and conventions of storytelling are changing. This module aims to give you a critical awareness of these developing forms of narrative for digital content. We will focus on the increasing use of games theory and narrative structures in ‘editorial games’ and build strategies to incorporate and exploit these in a journalistic context and critically assess the appropriateness of game theory to the broader issues of managing communities and social media

This module explores, in depth, the development and impact of social media on your practice. We will explore the development of social media and use this to help develop a critical framework from which to develop your understanding of the way social media is used by audiences and enable the building of practical strategies for engaging audiences.

This module aims to critically assess the development of new journalistic tools, process and practice. Through practical work you will learn how to develop and apply the practical skills needed to use these skills effectively in a multi-platform environment

This module aims to develop your understanding of the role of journalism and the individual journalist through critical analysis of the industries development. We will explore and develop changing responses to the challenges presented by the emergence of a multi-platform environment

This module is designed to take a critical approach to the impact that the changing relationships between journalist and their audience has on your practice. It aims to develop practical and personal management strategies which you can apply to models of business practice, commissioning and production in a multi-platform environment.