Cellphone Journalism

WHAT IS CELL PHONE JOURNALISM?

Storytelling

Cellphone journalism is a form of storytelling where the primary device used for capturing raw footage is the cellphone, and uploading the raw file around social media networks through the TBC-InTV Portal.

There are two things that make TBC-InTV cellphone journalism unique. First, it enables accredited reporters around the globe to report newsworthy stories as they happen in real time without editing the news.

Second, TBC-InTV cellphone journalism is truly revolutionary. The reporters are not glamorized, nor institutionalized. They are ordinary people from all walks of life who are witnesses of news worthy events. They are not “professional” news gatherers who do unprofessional news reports. These people are unbiased individuals whose main goal is to report what’s happening as they see them in a real time scenario.

FREE TRAINING COURSE on CELL PHONE JOURNALISM

Curriculum Guide and Syllabus

Course Information

Course Duration: Ten Days
Gadgets Needed: CellPhone or Ipad
Venue: Zoom Webinar
Fees: 10 USD FREE

News Reporting will be done Via TBC-InTV portal, amd distributed to

Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Linkedin

Course Description

This is a study of cell phone journalism in the context of internet television using cellphones and ipads as their tools in gathering and reporting news. This aims to check and balance the mainstream mass media’s abuses and misinformation through the perspective of education, justice in information dissemination, and humanities. The course will include technical instruction in the aforementioned media, including: mass media theory, writing news, writing for the ear, writing for the 21st century viewers.

The main thrust of the course is to prepare the participants to be field reporters and home based news readers. This course is mandatory for one to join the pool of Global Cell Phone Journalists under TBC-InTV.

An ID and a certificate will be awarded to the participants.

Course Objectives

Participants will be able to learn:

–       to write in Broadcast Style conforming to the ethical and practical principle
–       will develop reading habits that keep them aware of current affairs, local, national, and world
–       will learn to understand story structure and elements of news shows;
–       will become proficient in attributing sources, getting information right, avoiding libelous speech, and understanding the ethics behind news reporting;
–       will apprehend the side of news media not known to most consumers of news;
–       will learn and employ field-reporting techniques;
–       will master the on-camera interview, both in the field and in studio;
–       will learn to use images to tell stories;
–       will learn to write to video
–       will produce basic news stories (vo, vo/sot, rdrs, news packages)
–       will learn how to edit news stories on computers;
–       will begin to produce news shows that feature their news stories;
–       will create projects unrelated to news (commercial spots, music videos, PSAs, promotional pieces, and graphical introductions and transitions, etc.)

Course Outline:

Media Literacy

History of Broadcast Journalism
Media Habits
1st Amendment Issues
Elements of Broadcast News
Current Events
Writing In Broadcast Style
Writing for the ear
Broadcast News Vocabulary (the ethics)
What You See is What You Say (Writing to Video)
Writing to Time
Current Events-the :30 VO
Using Reference Materials
Structure, leads, elements
avoiding libelous speech

News Stories

Writing an Outline of a News Story

Field-Reporting
-shooting usable video footage
-conducting the on-camera interview
-shooting telling B-roll
-composing interesting shots
-telling stories in unconventional ways

Student Production based on News Gathered from Communities:

Trial Broadcast from Home using gadgets

Assessment

Assessment of work will come from instructor and classmates. We will examine each other’s work in a workshop format where we can praise the merits of the work, understand it’s shortcomings, and strive to improve our processes over the course of the year. Completion of projects is a vital component of student work.

Dedicated Support

Question Marks and deviou.

Resources:

TelevisionProduction by Phillip Harris

CNN Student Bureau

Broadcast Journalism by David Keith Cohler (Prentice Hall)

Introduction to Mass Communication by Stanley Baran (McGraw Hill)

Media Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication, Fifth ed.

By Richard Campbell, Christopher Martin, Bettina Fabos

Video Basics by Herbert Zettl (Wadsworth Publishing Company)

Media Ethics: Issues and Causes by Philip Patterson and Lee Wilkins (McGraw Hill)

Video Field Production and Editing by Campesi and Sherriffs

Journalism Matters by Schaffer, McCutcheon, and Stofer (National Textbook Company)

Journalism Today by Ferguson, Patten, and Wilson (National Textbook Company)

Dedicated Support

Question Marks and deviou.

Scholastic Journalism by English, Hach, and Rolnicki

Lighting For Action: Professional Techniques for Shooting Video and Film by John Hart (Amphoto)

Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg (Perennial)

If It Bleeds, It Leads: An Anatomy of Television News by Matthew Kerbel (Westview)

Writing to Deadline: The Journalist at Work by Donald M. Murray (Heinemann)

My Times: Adventures in the News Trade by John Corry (Grosset/Putnam)