Today, we will begin our shift from telling stories in a traditional print medium, to telling stories in new mediums like social media, online media and video.
For our opening assignment in using social media and writing about breaking news, what I will ask you to do is to pick out anything you observe as part of your daily routine for which to write an online breaking news preview story, an online breaking news follow-up story, and a live tweet stream as the event is unfolding.
When I say I want you to do anything in your daily routine, I do mean anything. Cover your watching your favorite TV show. Or your roommate making breakfast. Or a game on TV you're watching. Really, anything.
(I want these to be observations, not something you're participating in. For example, you can cover your roommate making breakfast, but not a first-person account of you making breakfast yourself. Just like with a news story, don't use first-person references.)
The reason for that is that I simply want you to get used to the technical process, without having to do any real and time-consuming reporting. We will incorporate reporting in latter versions of this assignment.
Then, what you will do is cover the activity of your choice, in two ways:
First, via social media, specifically Twitter. You will have to create a tweet stream of at least 12 tweets, each with a consistent unique hash tag, describing the event as it unfolds.
Second, you will have to create two online breaking news blog posts, with one post being a preview and the next being a recap of the event. Each post must be at least 100 words and no more than 200 words, and each should include at least two relevant hyperlinks.
Okay, Omar, so how the hell am I supposed to do this? you may be asking right about now.
Well, the next few blog posts should spell that out for you.
For our opening assignment in using social media and writing about breaking news, what I will ask you to do is to pick out anything you observe as part of your daily routine for which to write an online breaking news preview story, an online breaking news follow-up story, and a live tweet stream as the event is unfolding.
When I say I want you to do anything in your daily routine, I do mean anything. Cover your watching your favorite TV show. Or your roommate making breakfast. Or a game on TV you're watching. Really, anything.
(I want these to be observations, not something you're participating in. For example, you can cover your roommate making breakfast, but not a first-person account of you making breakfast yourself. Just like with a news story, don't use first-person references.)
The reason for that is that I simply want you to get used to the technical process, without having to do any real and time-consuming reporting. We will incorporate reporting in latter versions of this assignment.
Then, what you will do is cover the activity of your choice, in two ways:
First, via social media, specifically Twitter. You will have to create a tweet stream of at least 12 tweets, each with a consistent unique hash tag, describing the event as it unfolds.
Second, you will have to create two online breaking news blog posts, with one post being a preview and the next being a recap of the event. Each post must be at least 100 words and no more than 200 words, and each should include at least two relevant hyperlinks.
Okay, Omar, so how the hell am I supposed to do this? you may be asking right about now.
Well, the next few blog posts should spell that out for you.
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