*** Your third and optional fourth out-of-class stories. Your pitches should be approved by now; same parameters, requirements and minimums as we've been doing all semester.
Your deadline for the third out-of-class story will be no later than 9 a.m. Monday, April 17 in a Word document to omars@msu.edu. That gives you almost two weeks to get it done. I expect this one to be your best-written, most thoroughly-reported story of the semester. Yes, I will grade you harder than with earlier stories; you know more now and you've had more practice now so I expect more now.
Plus, your deadline for your optional fourth out-of-class story will be no later than 9 a.m. Monday, April 24 in a Word document to omars@msu.edu. If you choose to do a fourth story, the grade of that story will replace the worst of your previous three out-of-story grades. Ifyour fourth grade is worse than your first three, then your first three grades will stand. There will be no rewrite opportunity for this story.
Plus, your deadline for your optional fourth out-of-class story will be no later than 9 a.m. Monday, April 24 in a Word document to omars@msu.edu. If you choose to do a fourth story, the grade of that story will replace the worst of your previous three out-of-story grades. Ifyour fourth grade is worse than your first three, then your first three grades will stand. There will be no rewrite opportunity for this story.
Plus we also have this ...
*** Your third multimedia assignment. 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.
The multimedia package should 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 third multimedia assignment will be 9 a.m. Monday, April 24, via email to omars@msu.edu. Please put ALL your links to your work into a single email, with the subject line of MM2.
Please do your best to put in your best effort on these assignments. In many ways, these assignments are our finals.
We also have one final reading from the RFTM textbook this semester: Chapters 6 and 7 (p. 79-132), by the start of class Wednesday, April 12.
If you need any assistance, contact me ASAP. And good luck, everybody!
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