What's inside the College of Journalism

BBC College of Journalism is designed to provide journalists, students, and scholars at all levels with a full range of multimedia content and tools for the study of TV, radio, and online journalism. This resource brings together hundreds of videos, audio clips, discussion pages, teaching modules, and text pages to make the study of journalism accessible and interactive. Updated on a regular basis in response to breaking stories and issues in journalism, BBC College of Journalism is a contemporary training tool for both journalists and journalism students.

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• Discussion area – A forum for online discussion of all issues currently affecting journalism. Often seeded by commissioned pieces from well-known players within the industry, it has the potential to become the world's leading forum for discussion of issues in journalism. Areas covered include evolving business models, the growing importance of trust, and coverage of current issues such as climate change.
• Tutorials provide background material (including glossary definitions and short survey articles) on issues in the news alongside guidance on reporting those issues. The tutorial may be written or a video. Many tutorials are accompanied by quizzes, tests, and writing exercises.
• Briefings include factual information and guides on key subjects in the news. All briefings include text, video, and interactive material.
• Skills is a 'how to' section where a journalist or aspiring journalist can find guides to virtually all the skills required within the profession. Subjects include writing, production, broadcasting, and story-finding. Much of the material has been created by the BBC's leading on-air reporters. As well as text, audio and video, there are dozens of interactive exercises covering TV, radio, and text-based journalism.
• Law covers legal issues facing journalists, primarily in the UK but also broader, global issues such as international humanitarian law and law in times of international conflict.
• Ethics & Values covers the increasingly important issues of truth and accuracy, impartiality, independence, reporting in the public interest, accountability, and trust. Well-known BBC journalists discuss the issues in a broad variety of contexts including the politics of Northern Ireland, the conflict in the Balkans, and the coverage of major sporting events.
• Glossaries are quick guides designed for busy journalists. The section includes definitions of words related to current topics, for example; 'credit default swap' and 'sub-prime'.