Friday, February 17, 2017

JRN 200: Your Friday 2/17 Homework

Once again, you'll have some writing and some reading for the weekend. Here we go:

The writing assignment will be from Reporting For The Media Ch. 17, Ex. 3, P. 364. The slug is MISSING. Your deadline will be no later than 9 a.m. Monday to omars@msu.edu. Give yourselves 90 minutes to do the story.


For this assignment, your state is Michigan. Your city is East Lansing. The statistics are from the U.S. Department of Justice. The professor's school is Michigan State University. The name of Jason Abare's wife is spelled two different ways; the correct spelling is Anne. Using the spelling of Ann without the "e" will result in a fatal.


Also, you will have an ethical situation to handle in this story. You interview Sabrina Diaz, on the condition that you don't use her last name. How will you handle attribution in this situation? Review the prior text readings and blog posts, and come up with an ethical way to handle this situation that still addresses audience transparency.


Also, for your reading assignment please read Reporting For The Media Chapter 15 (p. 303-328) by 9 a.m. Wednesday.


And, per usual, please read today's latest blog posts reviewing our last writing exercise.


Any questions? Call me at 702-271-7983, email me at omars@msu.edu, or stop by and say hello by scheduling an appointment to see me at my office at CAS 360.

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