| Course ID: | JOUR 4090E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Reporting III: Storytelling Across Platforms |
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. |
| Oasis Title: | Reporting III |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in JOUR 4090 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| Prerequisite: | JOUR 3090 and JOUR 3190 and permission of department |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Students will be expected 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.
Students will be expected 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. Advanced writing and story structure will be emphasized, along with experiential, beat-based reporting. |
| 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 |