Realizing that Internet speeds for these students were relatively slow, CPU keeps the classes mostly text-based with "interactive exercises that can easily be brought to the screen and then saved to disk or printed out."

The Newsroom Management class will run from 6 November 2006 to 9 February 2007 an it's goals will be to: 

• train newsroom managers
  
• improve news gathering and reporting
• teach newsroom managers to recognise the important issues such as those covered by the UN Millennium Development Goals
• make managers aware of journalistic ethics and how these link with issues such as open democracy and good governance
• encourage accurate and responsible reporting
• give the general public unbiased information
• educate the public

Basic Journalism and Ethics will run from 6 November 2006 to 12 January 2007 and will cover:

• What makes news - and what makes a good reporter - how to find the angles that makes stories interesting
  
• News writing - hook the readers with beautifully crafted intros and well constructed stories
• Researching and interviewing - how to ask the right questions and get contacts to talk openly
• Covering incidents, politics - trick of the trade for specialist reporting
• Basic photography and basic sub-editing - how to take pictures editors want to use plus an insight into what sub-editors are looking for in reporters' copy
• Writing features, reviews, comment, and writing for the web - build your versatility by learning techniques for different types of journalism
• Ethics and the role of newspapers, plus other things reporters need to know - the moral, political and business background to journalism

See CPU's website for more information.

Source: CPU