Course Description
Students will fully develop enterprise news stories across platforms by applying a multiplatform storytelling philosophy supported by peer engagement, experiential learning, and advanced writing and storytelling instruction and practice. Each will produce a long-form text story, data-based digital design, video story, photo essay, and audio story.
Athena Title
Reporting III
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in JOUR 4090
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Prerequisite
Permission of department and JOUR 3090 and JOUR 3190 and one of the following (JOUR 3280 or JOUR 3330 or JOUR 3380)
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- By the end of this course, students will be able to merge the concepts and skills from Reporting I and II — journalism principles, reporting and research skills, writing, audience awareness, and production skill sets — into a cohesive approach to the presentation of professional, well-sourced news stories for a given beat.
- By the end of this course, students will be able to pitch, develop, and apply a multiplatform reporting philosophy by choosing and creating content on appropriate platforms for audiences, including alternate story forms. Based on choices for skills courses.
- Students will help equip each other in their area of interest.
Topical Outline
- Review of news values, audience awareness, and sourcing
- Primary and secondary research and reporting
- Beat development
- Pitching and story development
- Advanced writing
- Multiplatform philosophy
- Digital design with data
- Photo storytelling
- Video storytelling
- Audio storytelling
- Alternate story forms
- Multiplatform production best practices
