By Wednesday, March 3rd class:
Read your classmates profiles online
on the
Class Stories
link.
Identify three unique bits of info about them that stood
out for you. No paper...Oral report on your findings.
By Monday, March 8th class:
Bring Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
information about a person you know who is
being directly affected by the rising unemployment
or economic downturn in America.
BRING THEIR PHONE/EMAIL CONTACT INFO
for info verification by Prof. Bob.
You will be re-writing your Economic
Downturn
story and incoporating the "human peg" you find.
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STATE OF THE
MEDIA: 2009 Source:
Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism
WRITING FOR PRINT, ELECTRONIC
AND ONLINE MEDIA (3 UNITS)
Introduction to writing for media--newspaper, magazines,
electronic and the
Internet--as well as producing content for multi-media
distribution in a
converged media environment. Emphasis on how different media
require
different writing styles and content.
Both prerequisites must be completed successfully before J61
registration.
Pre-reqs: ENGL 1A and ENGL 1B.
Good News Writers are INFORMED & COMMUNICATE clearly.
This level of verbal
communication, based on student knowledge of
current events & media trends, is EXPECTED in Journalism 61.
30 years experience integrating technology into
communications strategies. His expertise includes
strategic communications planning, change management,
organizational culture, communicating business
initiatives,
communications research
and crisis management.
Good news writers
always find pertinent
RESEARCH
They use creditable sources of pertinent
data & information to support their stories.
Every
story NEEDS hard data, facts or figures,
as well as expert or quality source
comments, to enhance the
substance and perspective in ALL news
stories. Without it, general or generic
references make info in your stories sound
like gossip.
Journalists, in all fields, should NEVER
allow this to happen!
To get you started...
Possible reliable sources for STATISTICAL
INFO:
How to Use ATTRIBUTION in a News Story
Any time the information in your story
comes from a source,
and not from your own firsthand observations, it should be
attributed.
Every
story NEEDS hard data, facts or figures,
