Course ID: | JOUR 5090/7090-5090L/7090L. 6 hours. 6 hours lecture and 3 hours lab per week. |
Course Title: | Multiplatform Newsroom: Newsource |
Course Description: | Students will work in a newsroom environment using their
journalistic knowledge and skills in the production of daily
stories for multiple platforms, including TV broadcasting,
online, mobile, and social media news delivery. They will
write, shoot, and edit under daily deadline pressure. |
Oasis Title: | Newsource |
Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in JOUR 5091 or JOUR 7091 |
Undergraduate Prerequisite: | (JOUR 4090 or JOUR 4090E) and permission of department |
Graduate Prerequisite: | Permission of department |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | Students will demonstrate proficiency in identifying news
stories and determining the best sources for finding and
vetting information applicable to the story.
Students will demonstrate proficiency in reporting and
research.
Students will demonstrate proficiency in requesting information
from government sources through Federal and State Open Records
and Meetings Laws.
Students will demonstrate proficiency in choosing appropriate
platforms for storytelling.
Students will demonstrate proficiency in producing on deadline
TV newscasts as well as digital offerings featuring and
headlining the work of multiple journalists. |
Topical Outline: | The elements of visual storytelling
The art and science of news gathering; tools, terms, and toil
Exercising your Constitutional rights and privileges in the
gathering and dissemination of news
Your responsibilities to the public in gathering, vetting,
and disseminating news
SPJ and RTDNA Codes of Ethics
Writing to video
The art of the interview
Multiple platforms-multiple approaches
Presentation pointers |