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Agricultural Journalist

Journalists and Other Writers research and compile news stories, write and edit news reports, commentaries and feature stories for presentation in print and electronic media, and compose written material to advertise goods and services.

Job Titles

  • Copywriter
  • Newspaper or Periodical Editor, or Associate Editor
  • Print Journalist
  • Radio Journalist or Reporter
  • Technical Writer
  • Television Journalist or Reporter
  • Other Journalists and Other Writers

Tasks

  • determining advertising approach by consulting clients and management, and studying products to establish principal selling features
  • writing advertisements for press, radio, television, cinema screens, billboards, catalogues and shop displays
  • making decisions about the specific content of publications in conjunction with other senior editors and in accordance with editorial policies and guidelines
  • reviewing copy for publication to ensure conformity with accepted rules of grammar, style and format, coherence of story, and accuracy, legality and probity of content
  • collecting and analysing facts about newsworthy events from interviews, printed matter, investigations and observations
  • writing news reports, commentaries, articles and feature stories for newspapers, magazines, journals, television and radio on topics of public interest
  • researching and writing technical, information-based material and documentation for manuals, text books, handbooks and multimedia products
  • critically discussing daily news topics in the editorial columns of newspapers and reviewing books, films and plays

QUALIFICATIONS

A Bachelor Degree or higher, or at least 5 years of relevant experience is usually required. High levels of creative talent or personal commitment and interest are also important.

Tertiary Education Providers

NSW

Charles Sturt University

University of New England

The University of Sydney

Western Sydney University

Macquarie University

Southern Cross University

University of New South Wales

University of Newcastle

University of Technology Sydney

University of Wollongong

Avondale College of Higher Education

Victoria

Australian Catholic University

Swinburne University of Technology

RMIT University

Deakin University

Monash University

Victoria University

Federation University

University of Divinity

La Trobe

The University of Melbourne

Eastern College

South Australia

Flinders University

The University of South Australia

The University of Adelaide

Torrens University

Tabor College of Higher Education

Western Australia

Curtin University

The University of Western Australia

Edith Cowan University

Murdoch University

The University of Notre Dame

Tasmania

University of Tasmania

Queensland

James Cook University

The University of Queensland

Bond University

The University of Southern Queensland

Griffith University 

CQUniversity

The University of the Sunshine Coast

Queensland University of Technology

Australian Capital Territory

Australian National University

University of Canberra

Northern Territory

Charles Darwin University

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