JRN 200: Your Homework For The Week Of Monday 7/25

First, I will have your third and fourth out-of-class story pitches back to you by later this week. Here are your story deadlines:

*** Your third out-of-class story will be due no later than 9 a.m. Friday, Aug. 5 to omars@msu.edu.

*** Your optional fourth out-of-class story will be due no later than 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 15 to omars@msu.edu.

Second, we will have second and third video and blog assignments to do.

*** For your second multimedia assignment, we will use video and blog formats like those in our first assignments, but instead of having sorta irrelevant topics, you will take all of or an aspect of one of your first two out-of-class stories, and do a video/online preview/online recap for it.

That would include:

... a 1-2 minute video, uploaded to YouTube, with B-roll and at least two source interviews on-tape;

... a 100-200-word preview or one side of the issue, posted to blogger.com and done in a journalistic style, taking a look at the issue going into your reporting, with at least two relevant working hyperlinks embedded in the text;

... and a 100-200-word recap or other side of the issue posted to blogger.com and done in a journalistic style, taking a look at what you discovered about the issue/how it ended, with at least two relevant working hyperlinks embedded in the text;

For this exercise, you may re-interview sources from your previous stories or interview new sources. You may also use what you gathered and your notes from your original stories in putting together your new media news products.

Also, when I say you can do the entire comprehensive story or just an aspect of it, this is what I mean: let's say you did a story on the pros and cons of living off-campus vs. on-campus. The video and tweet stream may just look at one aspect, such as student opinions on the issue. The preview online story might look at the experiences of on-campus residents; with the recap looking at off-campus viewpoints. None of the mediums necessarily have to look at the issue as broadly as you did in a traditional text story (though you may do so if you so choose).

Your deadline for the second multimedia assignment will be 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 1, via email to omars@msu.edu. Please put ALL your links to your work into a single email, with the subject line of MM2.  

*** Then, you will have a third multimedia assignment, using the same parameters as the second. But your topic will be the same as your third out-of-class story. So when you do your interviews for your third out-of-classer, be sure to gather material for all mediums at the same time: print, video and online.

Your deadline for the third multimedia assignment will be 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 8, via email to omars@msu.edu. Please put ALL your links to your work into a single email, with the subject line of MM2.  

If you need any assistance, contact me ASAP. And good luck, everybody!