THE College of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM) is providing its MA in Media, Communications and Tradition college students the chance of a lifetime, as they’ll get to attend an all-expense-paid five-day bootcamp on the CNN Academy in Abu Dhabi this September.
The partnership was introduced by UNM’s College of Media, Languages and Cultures (SMLC) in 2022 as an non-compulsory module for the present MA Media, Communications and Tradition syllabus and it was very effectively acquired regardless of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, college students also can choose to do their CNN module alongside different media and communications modules reminiscent of ‘Points and Challenges in Up to date Media’ and ‘Mass Media and Working within the Tradition Trade’.
Often known as the Dash programme, the media bootcamp is curated with the newsgathering, digital and programming groups that work on CNN’s flagship present affairs programme – Join the World with Becky Anderson – that’s broadcast out of Abu Dhabi.
College students shall be launched to the basics of reports manufacturing, in addition to trending matters in in the present day’s digital-first media surroundings with the 20-credit module, which may also characteristic a sensible training component for college students to familiarise themselves with the basics of storytelling and manufacturing.
What’s extra, college students will find out about discovering, pitching and crafting tales.
They may also find out about search engine optimisation and multiplatform storytelling, in addition to verifying, confirming and reporting breaking information, along with writing for TV information, whereas being supported by CNN workers.
In the course of the course of the programme, college students will pitch, shoot and edit content material utilizing their smartphones earlier than presenting their work to a panel of judges from CNN.
In the direction of the tip of the Dash programme, college students would have gained a greater understanding of how a newsroom operates and they’re going to even be afforded the chance to fulfill and talk about new issues with CNN Abu Dhabi’s managing editor and standard information anchor Becky Anderson.
Moreover, they are going to be awarded with a CNN Academy Certificates in Storytelling.
This isn’t the primary time that SMLC has gone above and past so as to add worth to the training expertise and enrich the lives of its college students.
The college had beforehand organised a five-day Korean language programme with CJ Jeiljedang, a number one South Korean meals firm, in addition to writing workshops and varied cultural and inventive workshops.
To study extra in regards to the programs provided, go to the upcoming campus Open Days on Aug 27-28 from 10am-5pm, or go to the UNM campus from Monday to Friday (besides public holidays) from 9am to five.30pm. For extra data, go to nottingham.edu.my.