English for Journalism, a course created by the University of Pennsylvania, and funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of English Language Programs.
This course is designed for non-native English speakers who are interested in developing the skills needed for a career in modern journalism. In this course, you will explore print and digital media through authentic readings and video lectures, while expanding your vocabulary and increasing your ability to read, research, and develop local and global news stories. Unit 1 will provide an introduction to the history and principles of journalism. In unit 2, you will learn how to research, pitch, and interview. The next unit in the course will focus on the language needed to write newspaper and magazine articles, while unit 4 will cover the basics of broadcasting the news. In the final unit of the course, you will analyze the growth, impact, and challenges of digital news, while completing a reflection assignment that allows you to think about and discuss the recent changes to the field of journalism.
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Module 1 Principles of Journalism 1 - Overview and Gathering Sources
In this video, we will define the idea of principles, present an overview of the 10 principles of journalism, and look a…
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Module 1 Principles of Journalism 2 - Telling the Story
In this video, we're going to talk about four more principles of journalism. Originality, completeness, transparency and…
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Module 1 Language Focus – Simple Past and Past Progressive
In this video, we're going to talk about the structure and meaning of the simple past and the past progressive. We'll al…
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Module 1 Principles of Journalism 3 - Making an Impact
In this video, we're going to look at the principles that are about impacting people, meaning, how people are affected b…
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Module 2 William Cowen Interview
This video looks at how we interact with media every day and discusses how media has changed over the years and how it h…
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Module 2 What is Media Literacy?
in this video, we're going to answer the question, what is media literacy? In order to do that, we'll start with an unde…
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Module 2 Expressing opinions with modals 1
In this video we're going to learn about how to express opinions with modals. Modals include words like can, could, will…
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Module 2 Expressing opinions with modals 2
In this video, we're going to learn about the grammar of modals. In a previous video, we learned about two types of moda…
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Module 3 Bias by Placement
In this video we're going to discuss Bias by Placement. We'll talk about how the Role of Editors and Sensationalism can …
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Module 3 Bias by Omission
In this video we're going to talk about a bias by omission. We'll focus on two types, avoiding coverage of a story and p…
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Module 3 Connotation vs Denotation
In this video, we're going to discuss denotation and connotation. These concepts deal with the way we choose words to ex…
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Module 3 Bias by Spin
In this video we're going to talk about bias by spin. Remember spin means giving a positive or negative point of view ab…
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Module 3 Overcoming Bias
In this video, we're going to talk about how you can use media literacy skills to overcome the types of bias we discusse…
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Module 4 Choosing a Topic
In this video, we'll look at choosing a topic and turning it into an idea.
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Module 4 Researching an Idea
In this video, we'll talk about different types of articles or television news segments. We'll also talk about different…
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Module 4 Pitching a Story to Newspapers and Magazines
In this video, we'll talk about the process newspapers and magazines go through when picking what stories to print. Part…
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Module 4 Pitching a Story for Radio
In this video we're going to look at pitching a radio script. This is similar but a little bit different to pitching a p…
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Module 1 Language Focus Word Families
In this video we’ll talk about word families, words with the same root and different endings to form various parts of sp…
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Module 4 Interviewing Sources Wh questions
In this video we’ll focus on wh- questions, or questions that begin with wh- words like who, what, where, when, and why.…
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Module 5 Language Focus Quoting Sources and Reporting Verbs
In this video we will talk about why journalists use quotes, and about different verbs journalists use when reporting a …
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Module 5 Interview with a Student Journalist from The Daily Pennsylvanian
In this video, we speak with Lauren Feiner, a Junior at the University of Pennsylvania, and who is also the Editor in Ch…
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Module 5 Interviewing Notetaking
In this video, we are going to talk about strategies that help a journalist take accurate notes when they are interviewi…
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Module 5 Language Focus Using Reported Speech
In this video, we are going to focus on using reported speech. Journalists do not want to use too many quotes in a story…
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Module 6 Types of Leads
In this video, we’ll talk about three types of leads: summary, anecdotal, and contrast.
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Module 6 Print Media
In this unit, we’ll talk only about print media, or written news sources. In video one, we’ll talk about the process of…
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Module 6 Creating a Lead
In the previous video we talked about different types of leads: summary, anecdotal, and contrast. Since the summary lea…
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Module 6 SV Agreement with Complicated Subjects
In this video we’re going to look at a type of grammar called subject-verb agreement, and how to make sure that the subj…
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Module 7 Use of Active Passive Verbs
In the last video, we talked about the structure and meaning of the active and passive voice. In this video, let’s talk…
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Module 7 Proofreading an Article
In this video we will discuss how to proofread an article. Proofread means reading a finished article to check for error…
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Module 8 The Language of Broadcast Journalism
In this video, we’ll describe broadcast journalism and introduce some vocabulary we need to talk about broadcast journal…
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Module 8 Types of Stories for Broadcast Journalism
In this video, we’re going to introduce more types of stories including commentary, consumer reports, and feel-good stor…
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Module 8 Using Conversational Style
In this video we’re going to look at the conversational style that broadcasters use to connect with the audience.
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Module 8 Ratings in TV News How Journalists Compete
In this video we’re going to talk about challenges that broadcast journalists face when trying to deliver the news on te…
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Module 8 Sensationalism in TV News
In this video we’re going to talk about what sensationalism is, and then we’ll explore two types of sensationalism: cel…
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Module 8 The 24-Hour News Cycle
In this video we’re going to look at the 24 hour news cycle. We’ll look at how it began and at two ways that it has chan…
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Module 8 Language Focus Stress and Pausing
In this video, you’ll learn how to use stress and pausing to help you read out your story. Stress and pausing are import…
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Module 7 Reporting Accurately
In this video we will look at reporting more accurately by gathering multiple perspectives and seeing if they agree.
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Module 7 Structure of Active and Passive Verbs
In this language focus video, we’ll talk about the structure and meaning of the active and passive voice.
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Module 4, Create a Pitch (sample)
This is a sample pitch for a news story.
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Module 2 How can we analyze media messages? (part 2)
In this video, we will discuss the final two questions to ask yourself when analyzing media messages.
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Module 1 Strategies for New Words Roots and Prefixes
In a previous video, you learned about the I-G-D strategy for dealing with new vocabulary in a news article. Remembers, …
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Module 1 Strategies for New Words
In this video, we will look at some strategies that you can use when you see new, unknown words in a news article.
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Module 5 Interviewing Reliability, Facts, and Opinions
In this video you will learn about the different types of sources, meaning the different types of people who you could i…
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Module 8 Types of Stories for Broadcast Journalism
In this video, we’re going to introduce more types of stories including commentary, consumer reports, and feel-good stor…
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Module 6 - Using the Inverted Pyramid Style
In this video, we will look at one common way to organize a news article: the inverted pyramid.
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Module 6 - Writing a Conclusion
In this video, we will look at how to end, or conclude, a news article.
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Module 5 Language Focus - Sample Interview
This is the second language focus video about making predictions as a listening strategy. In this video, we will look at…
