As the first year of university begins to lower its head to sleep I want to look back on the modules I had for Journalism this semester.

This semester we had two fascinating subjects related to journalism in Sub-Editing and Radio Journalism. This was much nice compared to having only a journalism-related subject last year.

The modules were really interesting and had me thinking a lot about the profession at large. I will admit guys that I have a level 6 QQI in Radio production so I had some familiarity with radio editing and producing content. However, I thought the focus of the lessons offered a lot of insight.

Audrey, our lecturer tried to teach a lot of what we should be looking for when we are prepping a story. This was interesting cause when radio content before and similar to what I do in ULFM, I focus on the aesthetic more so than the story. What sounds good on the radio than what should be.

I think Audrey’s saying “Always think of the head, heart and pocket in a story” will always decent advice to trying to be a good journalist and get the story an audience needs to hear maybe more so than they want.

A can’t say much more about sub-editing as it was very self-directed learning particularly of the software InDesign which I found myself picking up at a particularly decent skill.

This makes me a little proud as these modern new media skills such as desktop publishing, video or photo editing are very versatile skills that any CV would love to have and it gives me the motivation to hone.

That’s all for me though, is there any great lesson or skills you learnt this year that perhaps wasn’t on your learning outcomes but you found valuable anyway? Let me know.

Caleb x