Welcome!
C&J 372, previously known as "Advanced Reporting,"
is the capstone course in the print journalism concentration. It
is intended to give you online experience and skills that you can
use in a 21st century in which every news media organization is
an active Web publisher. Coursework will include creating a news
Web site for stories written in C&J 475.
All students will
have opportunities to work in both the Mac and Windows labs.
UNM is a fourth-year pioneer in teaching a multimedia journalism course in which
students produce a news Web site. As a student in C&J 475, you will
be helping to produce a version similar to the C&J
Online News, the news site and online 'zine of C&J's journalism program.
"Not
long ago, the typical beginning reporter faced a simple choice:
print or broadcast. Those options remain. But today's growth area
is in multimedia jobs that blur and often obliterate the old boundaries."
—Carl Sessions Stepp
American Journalism Review |
For spring 2010, the class news site is The Mojo, and the site will be developed in late March.
The class will be conducted as if we are a professional online news team
whose charge is to produce a dynamic, readable and credible Web news site.
This course will help you develop the skills and new mind frame needed
to succeed in today's rapidly evolving media environment. The course focus is
on the understanding essential to producing news information in print, video, photography and online.
You need the AP Stylebook and a USB drive for file storage and transfer. There is no textbook, but there are numerous
links to required online readings on the schedule page. Each week's online readings must be completed before the start of the subsequent class.
By the third week of class, each student must own a USB flash drive
and have it in his or her possession at every class for
downloading and saving files. Every student will be expected to monitor
television news coverage and read the Daily Lobo and the Albuquerque
Journal and their Web sites.
(For archival purposes, the news site for the spring 2007
class was The Howler; the spring 2008 class site was The
Cranberry; and the spring 2009 class site was The Grindstone.) |