Train as a digital journalist in this free online course that explains how the internet has changed modern reporting.

The advent of the internet has established the field of digital journalism, which has changed the way news is created and reported across online networks to quickly share breaking news that features graphics and audio in the form of multimedia. This type of reporting has become more important and today's news environment requires media-specific journalistic abilities. Journalistic styles and structures from print, radio and television get copied, modified and adjusted for the different demands created by the medium of the internet. This digital journalism course explains how new media supplanted conventional forms and describes the abilities, mobile reporting tools and apps that modern journalists require. We first examine the architecture of the internet, including its web browsers, the file transfer protocol, terminologies, narrative forms and services.

Digital journalism allows connected debates on public news items. This course shows you how blogs can demonstrate the journalist's personality and abilities and how photos alone may tell a story. We cover technical aspects of the job like hypertext, link structure, voice control navigation, usability, the user experience and website design. We explain how to create narratives using video, infographics and other visual components that create a sense of immediacy. The course also explores multimedia, the four phases of news, the merits and drawbacks of various media, the news-gathering approach, video content and communication technologies.

This journalism course teaches you how to conduct user research, create online publishing, leverage online networks and monetise the web. Our lessons cover data journalism, metrics, analytics, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Due to the rising levels of cyberbullying and harassment experienced by female and freelance journalists in the UK, the course contains an entire section on protecting oneself from such threats and trolls. Finally, we explore the ethics of digital journalism and provide the legal knowledge you need to evaluate whether your stories are relevant, appropriate and in the public interest. We describe the reporting restrictions pertinent to court processes and examine election laws, the Defamation Act, copyright laws and the internet safety requirements governing journalists. This course teaches all aspects of digital journalism from the ground up and provides all the training you need to set up and run a professional news site. Sign up to learn how to connect with a wider audience and turn your journalistic skills into an extra revenue stream in the form of self-publishing on new media.