Week 14 – April 21

-Please log into Canvas shell for Digital Journalism II and fill out the course evaluation “Student Rating of Instruction” located at the top under University Policies and Important Information.

–Adrift (Grace)

-Burned (Ryan)

–Issue Story Assignment Overview

–Feature Structure revisited

–Assembling your story

–Platform, software and tutorials for Issue Story and social media component

–Assignment 5: Social media component

Everything will be due at 10am on Wednesday, May 1. Then we will do some short presentations starting at 10:15am for about an hour during the final exam period. (No, there is no exam).

Week 12 – April 8

-OJA presentation Elon Musk takes over Twitter (Jenna)

–Issue Story Assignment Overview – What you’ve done. Where you are headed.

–Feature Structure revisited

–Assembling your story

–Platform, software and tutorials for Issue Story and social media component

–Assignment 5: Social media component

Assignments:

–Sign up for individual meetings next week. No regular class.

-Have a revised, updated draft ready for peer review by Monday, April 21. We will do peer editing that week.

Assignment 5: Social media component

Goal: To create a concise, yet informative social media news feature to complement your issue story. Your social media component should:

1. Engage audience in the story
2. Summarize the basic content of the story
3. Provide voices of some of your subjects
4. Promote and drive traffic
5. Take advantage of the qualities of social media

It is meant to provide information in a simple, yet informative and engaging way. This is a chance to experiment and innovate. Reporters often use social media to show the process of their reporting as well as to preview and promote their published work.

Week 11 – March 31

-OJA Presentation – The Chain of Failures That Left 17 Dead in a Bronx Apartment Fire (Tatiana)

–Issue Story Assignment Overview – What you’ve done. Where you are headed.

–Feature Structure revisited

–Assembling your story

–Platform, software and tutorials for Issue Story

Assignments:

–Assignment 3: Project first draft (100 points) due Sunday, April 7.

-Skim OJA presentation Elon Musk takes over Twitter (Jenna) for Monday, April 8

Week 10 – March 24

-OJA Presentation – The Chain of Failures That Left 17 Dead in a Bronx Apartment Fire (Tatiana)

–Issue Story Assignment Overview – What you’ve done. Where you are headed.

–Feature Structure revisited

–Assembling your story

–Platform, software and tutorials for Issue Story

–Billboard and Cosmic Graph drafting

Assignments:

-For April 1, preview Made in Miami: The assassination of Haiti’s Jovenel Moise (Issac)

–Assignment 3: Project first draft (100 points) due Sunday, April 7.

-See OJA presentation schedule for semester

Assignment 3: Issue Story First Draft

Provide me with as a complete first draft as you can — text, media, format, structure, and presentation. It should have as many of the required elements (see below) as you can include. If you are missing elements or parts, you must provide an explanation of what is to come.

If you are submitting a podcast or video, you can submit a script with relevant audio or video clips.

Your goal is a high-quality, in-depth feature story that is publishable and an example of work for your portfolio.

Required Elements:

• Compelling, descriptive headline that uses key words
• One-sentence sub-headline or teaser that expands on the headline and previews what is to come.
• Byline
• Follow the Feature Structure we have discussed in class
• Subheads for sections
• All text must follow AP Style for names, numbers, capitalization and word usage.
• Text must be clear, clean, concise and free of spelling, grammar and typo errors.
• Embed hyperlinks to background and source material in your text.
• Attribute all media that you created (photos, video, audio, etc)
• Attribute any information, images, graphics that you do not report or create yourself. Provide link to source of material.

Platform, software and tutorials for Issue Story

Week 9 – March 17

-OJA presentation: Inmate shuffle: How California bounces around its mentally ill prisoners (Kate)

–Issue Story Assignment Overview – What you’ve done. Where you are headed.

–Feature Structure revisited

–Assembling your story

-Example: Maternal mental health: A lonely struggle (CNN)

-Example: Where are all the Bob Ross paintings? (NYTimes)

-Next steps for your project?

Assignments:

-I am asking everyone to add updates to your Assignment 2 Google Drive folder by Sunday, March 24 at 11:59pm. Add any new interviews or media you did not submit before Spring Break. Also if you are missing items (ie Profile Notes or a planning document) add those. See my comments in Canvas. I will update grades for this assignment next week.

-For March 25, preview The Chain of Failures That Left 17 Dead in a Bronx Apartment Fire (Tatiana)

-Start working toward Assignment 3: Project first draft (100 points) due March 31 April 7. Details TBA.

-See OJA presentation schedule for semester

Assembling your story

This is like a puzzle. You create the pieces through your research, reporting, interviews and media. Then you start to put them together. And in the process, you might notice some missing pieces. And then you have to go do more reporting to create them.

1. Go through your interviews.
   Listen for anecdotes and moments of reflection. These are your quotes and soundbites. (See Ira Glass). Log and transcribe good quotes. See what you have and what you don’t have. You might have to go get more interviews.

2. Use the Profile Notes document to focus and put things in your own words.

3. Review your media – photos, audio, video. Think about Which Media Elements are Best for Your Story? And how you want to present them.

4. Write a draft of your story or voice over (if podcast or video). Follow the Feature Struture

5. Add other media – photos, audio clips, soundbites, b-roll, etc.
Pay attention to how all of the parts relate to each other. Headline, featured image, pull quotes, text, multimedia.

6. Additional reporting?

Week 8 – March 3

-OJA presentation – The Rise and Fall of the Jersey Seagull (Emily)

–Feature Struture

-Wednesday, March 6 – NO CLASS. There is a college job fair that day from 10am-2pm.

-Submit Assignment 2: Interviews and Media – Full Assignment (Worth 85 points) before you leave for Spring Break or Sunday, May 10 at 11:59pm at the latest.

You are submitting:

• Four (4) portraits or video stills of each of the people you are profiling. You want to take these yourself. If you can’t, you may use a photo they give you as backup, which you will credit to them.
• Four (4) interview recordings for each of your profiles (audio or video file).
• Four (4) profile notes. Make a copy of this Google docLinks to an external site. (File>Make a copy>Rename) and fill it out with information on each of your profile subjects.
• A folder of Other Media. This is up to you. You can submit photos, audio, video, graphics that help tell the story in a compelling way. Suggestions: WS of location, MS of action or people in relation to others, CU of significant items, b-roll video, natural sounds for a podcast, music you might use for background, etc.

Upload all media and Google doc profile notes to your Google Drive folder. Make sure I have access and you have shared it with me. Submit a link to your Google Drive folder into Canvas.

If you don’t have all four (4) interviews complete, submit as much as you have and include a document with your specific plans to get the remaining interviews.

SPRING BREAK!

-OJA Inmate shuffle: How California bounces around its mentally ill prisoners (Kate) for Monday, March 18