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About the Course

This course will guide you through the basic elements of professional journalism and the news values and ethics of covering real-world issues and events. The overview and examples of the types of news coverage helps introduce the different types of journalism, such as social media, multimedia, print, visual and broadcast, and how professional journalists effectively use each format....

Top reviews

AG

Apr 26, 2020

Very good because it is taught about all the basics of journalists. Various case studies also train me to be able to think more with the mindset of a journalist. I highly recommend this class.

DS

Jun 7, 2020

I really enjoyed learning all of the different parts dealing with Journalism. I thought that the videos and the light reading made for a great learning experience. Thanks, Denise Shannon.

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By IRENE H H

Jun 3, 2019

amazing

By ELIAS P N

Feb 7, 2021

Great!

By Елизавета Л

Dec 24, 2023

класс

By Rafael D d B

Apr 5, 2023

LEGAL

By shreya k

May 30, 2020

great

By جميل ا

Feb 13, 2020

Great

By Sundus J

Nov 16, 2020

good

By Mona A A

Aug 18, 2020

good

By Abdulrhman G A

Jan 29, 2020

good

By Basheer T A

Jul 10, 2021

5

By mohammad f

Jul 21, 2020

Great course for an uninitiated. Inculcates well the different branches of journalism, most important take away is the Ethics that you learn a journalist has to follow. Not only does it moulds us within ethical framework but also helps to judge the news content and journalists around us and hence, filter out shoddy piece of fiction that gets circulated in the name of journalism. Great first step towards the new dynamic world of ethical News.

By Jordan H

Jul 16, 2019

5 stars for information gathered in course, but only 3 stars due to the slow peer-grading process. (Average of 4 stars). I did enjoy the quality videos and the passion of the instructors. I took tons of notes and have a lot to pass on to my students. The course was wonderful, but Coursera needs to update how they handle the peer-review process (quite tedious with minimal helpful feedback).

By Farah S K

Jul 19, 2016

The course is great for beginners into the filed of learning to be reporting. I am happy i signed up for it though it was a bad time at work to focus on the course but I did. I look forward to completing the remaining courses required for specialisation. Thankyou coursera and the Michigan State University for the opportunity.

By Tanmay P

Jul 12, 2020

Thanks to Michigan State University faculty members and Coursera for this specialization course on journalism. This course will test your journalistic ethics, integrity, credibility, and decision-making at every step. I look forward to completing many such exciting courses on journalism in the coming weeks.

By Kalaiarasan S

Jan 15, 2018

'What is news?' is a part of course of Become a Journalist: Report the News! The traveling through this first course is good easy. Not too much of pressure and burden. It will be good for participants to have multi-way thinking ability to know practical answers whenever doing quizzes and assignments.

By Richard C

Feb 13, 2023

Although you are already finished doing the 4 courses you can not proceed to the 5th one to finish the entire specialization. The completion of specialization is being hampered by the delay in the grading of peer reviews. If this can not be resolved it would be better to unenroll.

By Berkay E

Apr 16, 2021

It was a very benefical course for every student who studies Journalism or for the people who works as a journalist. However, what was taught was very basic. So I would like to have more practical training or study more examples from any kind of journalism.

By lalith v s k

May 19, 2020

The Course Videos and Language is very easy to understand. The Way Of Teaching and what is need to student, they can teach to us (this is best way to teach in online).Lectures are deep into the concept .Finally than you for the lecture and course.

By vanshika

Apr 18, 2020

The course met my expectations and was much better in fact. It was informative and opened several new doors to Journalism. I believe this will be a great stepping stone for my career and thank Michigan State for granting me this opportunity.

By Shrijita B

Feb 11, 2016

I am still taking this course and I am really excited to take the other courses in the specialization. The topics are covered with in- depth analysis and I am very much satisfied with course content.

By Margaret C

Feb 27, 2021

I learned a lot about news I didn't know before I started and that was my goal. I don't agree with peer review process it lacks the expertise of the faculty whom we are learning from.

By Kwame S

Jun 15, 2018

Material is great, and have submitted everything early. Just waiting to be peer reviewed and have people to peer review so I can finish this module completely.

By Lubna M

Sep 23, 2021

Thank you very much. I learned a lot about the basics of journalism about how to be honest, accurate, genuine and follow the right path as much as possible

By Mohammed H

Feb 15, 2021

very good course to start with journalism career and also there are terms and things I learned here and didn't learn yet in a mass of communication faculty

By Leon R

Aug 1, 2018

I enjoyed this course. As I stated in my review of the second course, the instructors need to make sure the prompts for the peer-graded assignments match.