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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
The growth of brand journalism and online content marketing has increased the need for practitioners who can create authentic, insightful, and reader-friendly content. The Feature Journalism online course provides the knowledge and expertise necessary to learn, publish, and market feature journalism to a number of publications.
The Feature Journalism Training refines and improves writing skills, which aids in becoming a successful writer and preparing for a career in journalism. The online course provides insight into the creation of feature articles, reporting methodology, and interview techniques, as well as other critical content elements like grammar, structure, and editing techniques.
The Feature Journalism syllabus explores the legal and ethical complexities of journalism, as well as covers best practices for collaborating with editors. In the course, candidates will write a 2000-word feature story, which will be directed and scrutinized by André Wiesner, an award-winning journalist. This course enhances in-depth research and interviewing skills that are required for professional writing.
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The Highlights
- 7-10 hours per week
- Split fee option available
- University of Cape Town offering
- Assessments and projects
- Online learning
- Shareable certificate
- Downloadable resources
- Course provider Getsmarter
- 10 weeks duration
- Self-paced learning
Programme Offerings
- online learning
- Self-paced learning
- Case Studies
- video lectures
- Infographics
- Offline resources
- quizzes
- Live polls
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|
| yes | UCT Cape Town |
Eligibility Criteria
Certification Qualifying Details
To qualify for the Feature Journalism certification, All program elements, including assignments, projects, quizzes, and live polls must be completed by candidates. A series of practice evaluations and examinations are used to evaluate students. An applicant must complete all of the criteria specified in the course handbook in order to qualify for the certification.
What you will learn
After the completion of Feature Journalism online training, candidates will learn about the function and forms of feature articles. Candidates will develop researching and interviewing skills for feature journalism. The course provides knowledge of structure and language used in features along with covering journalistic ethics and key elements of feature writing.
Who it is for
- Candidates wish to broaden their knowledge and develop their technical writing skills by learning how to do in-depth analysis and conduct interviews.
- professional writers who wish to develop their structuring and editing skills in order to improve their readers' experience.
- Candidates who want to enter the media industry and want to understand payment, publication, and copyright considerations.
Admission Details
Candidates should follow the steps below to get admitted to Cape Town University's feature journalism online training:
Step 1. Go to the official course website.
Step 2. To get started, go to the course page and click the 'Register Now' button.
Step 3. Before proceeding, please check the consent box and accept that you have reviewed, understood, and agree to its terms and conditions.
Step 4. Create your profile on the Getsmarter platform by filling out your personal information.
Step 5. Provide the billing address information, if someone is paying your tuition fee then provide sponsor details too.
Step 6. Pay the fee using the preferred payment method and start the training.
The Syllabus
- Use a memory aid for use throughout the course
- Describe the world of professional feature journalism
- Explain the lifestyle of feature assignments
- Explain how feature journalism differs from news reporting
- Identify the diverse uses of the term ‘feature journalism’
- Identify basic reporting rules used in feature journalism
- Identify the journalistic family of forms
- Define journalism
- Explain how features fit into journalism
- Practice the forms of writing associated with journalism
- Illustrate the function of features in the ‘news mix’
- Analyse the ingredients of ‘newsworthiness’
- Investigate how media industry experts develop topics
- Analyse topics for their feasibility and ‘photographability’
- Apply a detailed definition of ‘research’
- Analyse a case study on Tom Wolfe and the importance of research and reporting
- Compare different research techniques
- Apply the key steps feature journalists take in their research
- Evaluate various sources of information
- Develop a feasible story idea
- Investigate the social politics of interviewing
- Define what interviewing is
- Analyse the fundamentals of interviewing techniques
- Evaluate why feature articles must have an angle
- Illustrate how feature articles need to answer the six basic questions
- Assess the importance of balanced research and granting the right of reply
- Plan to include ‘facts and figures, anecdotes, atmosphere, and storytelling in your feature article
- Evaluate the importance of a new peg or point of newsworthiness
- Construct key interviewees as characters
- Review strategies for planning the structure of your article
- Use scenic and summary methods of writing
- Use the classic three-paragraph lead-in
- Show the importance of the lead-in
- Analyse several facets of depth editing
- Compare crafting, editing, and self-directing
- Write the first draft of your article
- Analyse numerous points related to surface editing
- Analyse important restrictions on freedom of speech, including the law on defamation
- Investigate the major arguments that are made in support of freedom of speech
- Analyse common ethical problems that may be encountered in practice
- Apply media freedom and the responsibilities that come with it
- Analyse publishing markets
- Investigate potential publishing markets
- Recommend ways of selling stories to your chosen market
- Investigate payment and copyright considerations
- Assess practical hints and tips from editors
- Produce a final draft of a feature article
Instructors
UCT Cape Town Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
The feature stories don't follow the classic style of covering news stories, it provides in-depth reports and important facts.
The 5 types of feature stories are:
- Informational features
- Brites
- Interview
- Personality sketch
- Human interest stories
The interpretative feature story Instructs, advises, and clarifies the context and importance of social, political, economic, and other daily problems to the reader.
An article includes 5W and 1H whereas the feature includes in-depth and human interest stories.
Yes, a feature article can be written in the first as well as a second and third person.