Week 11: Journalism 2001

November 22, 2010

Extra Credit

Kristen Chick Presentation– 10 extra credit points– Interesting presentation!

Review of last week’s news

Hard News:(murders, city council, government, etc.)– Major local stories– Major national/international stories– Major sports stories

Soft News:(retirements, school programs, human interest)– Local stories– National/international stories– Sports stories

Feature story draft:Due next Monday, November

29 This is part of your out-of-class

assignment for November 29 Bring a printed draft copy of your

story to class– Outline/idea map OK – need a strategy!

We will review/discuss ideas individually

Second draft due December 6 Final story due December 13

Also next week……

Textbook Quizzes:– Chapters 8, 10

In-class assignment:– Editing classmate Community Journalism

story Make changes, give to reporter Editing form returned to me: Worth 5 points

– Rewrite Community Journalism stories Using editing suggestions, rewrite/edit your

story Email final copy to: lkragnes@d.umn.edu

– Worth 5 points Stories will be posted on class website

Community Journalism Story:Due TODAY!

Due Today!

Out of Class Assignment: Editorial

Inflated Words/Redundancies

Will cover Chapters 8, 10next week

Oops!

Sports broadcasting errors

When an apology is not enough– http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/spo

rts/golf/11sandomir.html

Final Project

Portfolio We will review eportfolio next week

In-class assignment

Questions about article in a Duluth News Tribune story about salaries

Complete assignment tonight and give to Lucy Kragness

Portfolio

Store academic information on your Electronic Portfolio. Each student has 100 mb of storage.

Access Electronic Portfolio at: https://portfolio.umn.edu/portfolio/index.jsp