[cma-l] Community Journalism: Digital and Social Media - free online course starts 8th Feb

[CMA-L]

Community journalism is a growing area of interest for professional
journalists, academics and the wider public. The decline of local
newspapers and radio stations, coupled with the low cost of publishing
online, means there are more community journalism and hyperlocal websites
being launched everyday.

*Launch your own community or hyperlocal site*

Whether you want to launch and support your own site - or simply study this
new media sector - this free online course will give you both useful
insights and practical skills.

Community journalism is an area that combines elements of traditional
journalism with the new opportunities brought about by digital and social
media, so we’ll look at:

   - setting up a community website
   - exploring different forms of community – local, professional or
   personal
   - identifying and building an audience
   - creating content and establishing a workflow to sustain the site
   - using Wordpress, Twitter and Facebook
   - managing an online community
   - and abiding by media law and ethics.

*Learn with the UK’s first community journalism centre*

You’ll learn with the UK’s first academic Centre for Community Journalism,
launched by Cardiff University in 2013 to help nurture and study this
growing sector.

This will give you a broader understanding of the field and how it’s
developed, as well as insights into the experiences of those already
operating community sites.

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/community-journalism

\\

Community Media Association
-- 
http://www.commedia.org.uk/
http://twitter.com/community_media
https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation

Canstream Internet Radio & Video
http://www.canstream.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/canstream
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/pipermail/cma-l/attachments/20160120/7e6272cb/attachment.html>