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| Course ID: | JOUR 3190. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Reporting II: Research, Data, and Documents for Reporting | Course
Description: | Students learn methods to gather news and information via observation, interviewing, capturing visuals, accessing documents, and analyzing and visualizing data. Covers comprehensive storytelling across platforms, requesting and working with public documents, fact-checking and verification, and the use of digital tools to analyze audiences and optimize content for digital distribution. | | Oasis Title: | Reporting II | | Prerequisite: | JOUR 3090 and permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | Course Objectives: | Students expand and deepen their knowledge about journalistic research methods across platforms. They develop expertise in covering beats and in finding and vetting diverse sources ranging from secondary to human to documents and data. Fundamentals of audience engagement and analytics, search engine optimization (SEO), fact-checking and verification, open records, and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests are covered. Students in this advanced reporting class continue to enhance their skills in requesting and conducting interviews, using strategies and tools appropriate for audio, visual, and digital platforms. | | Topical Outline: | State and federal open records and open meetings laws
Access to crime scenes and other live stories
Mechanics of beat reporting
Requesting documents and data
Online and database research techniques
Social media search techniques
Finding sources
Interviewing techniques
Observation and the telling detail
Capturing audio and visuals
Numeracy
Requesting and cleaning data
Introduction to data journalism
Audience analytics
Search engine optimization
Content management systems
From reporting the story to creating the story | |
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