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This course is designed to enhance journalism skills while also introducing students to the basics of writing for publication on the World Wide Web. Through readings and practice, students will produce a variety of web-based documents that incorporate reporting and writing with basic graphic, audio and video files. They will leave the course with their own on-line portfolio, and can continue this work in the Multimedia Reporting class.
Students should be prepared to do lots of traditional, shoe-leather REPORTING for this class. This means actually going out and interviewing real live people, and digging through public documents. You should also be prepared to do several public presentations, and to be able to speak about your work in a professional manner.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
The New York Times is set up similarly to a regular print newspaper, and is easy to navigate. An interactive feature that I noticed was still photos snapped individually to create a panoramic view of the Republican Convention. Video and audio are available too, but I thought this set NYT a bit more apart from other papers. It is very well organized and easy to understand.
The other major newspapers like Washington Post and USA Today are comparable to NYT, but USA Today did not feature the Republican Convention, but boldly headlined the fact that unemployment rate is rising. All these sites mentioned both the convention and unemployment rate “above the fold” or top half the site. I also could not find the social networking aspect of USA TODAY that bivingsreport talked about.
The other sites on the list are still populated cities, but less nationally circulated papers. The Houston Chronicle’s first half has a lot of information meshed together and it makes it not appealing to search through and find relevant stories. Only one video was available on the main page, and although almost all the other sites have blogs chron.com features more reader blogs, photos and stories. Also there is a strong focus on Houston area news. This site featured the Astros in place of the convention.
The Denver Post ran a story on ice cream shop deaths in place of the unemployment story and had all local stories up top along side a slew of information on the Republican Convention.
Knoxnews.com didn’t impress me much, it felt very community paper, the videos scrolled in one area and were not separated placed with its matching story. There were only a couple AP headlines, stories not covered by their staff, and an only text election section.
I got distracted with the FresnoBee Crime Map and tried to find the worst crimes possible in Fresno. Unlike all the other sites, this site scrolled through stories at the top, kind like a Yahoo. But it starts with local news and ends with breaking news, which seems backwards. There is a lot of football focus.
The videoplayer of the Statesman is similar to knoxnews. There are a lot of reader reactions and blogs and they are featured high on the first half of the site. There is a lot of opinion and less news content, especially on the election. Also there are many more ads here than other sites.
The Tennessean was experiencing technical difficulties so the site was very simple and only contained links on their own lines rather than side by side in image format. I think it usually looks more professional judging from bivingsreport.
A mobile feature that uploads links and news to your phone was an interesting feature on all of the sites, something that has developed in the last couple years. I spent most of my time on NYT because that is where I usually read my news anyways.
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