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J453 Online Reporting

and Editing: Spring2011

Brian Duggan

David Calvert

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Brian Duggan

bpduggan@gmail.com (preferred) 702-203-7679@briandugganwww.bpduggan.com  The Nevada Appeal business and legislative

reporter; also written for the Arizona

Republic, Scripps News, Las Vegas ReviewJournal and the Bismarck Tribune.

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David Calvert

david@calvertphotography.com

775-848-3510

@calvertphotowww.calvertphotography.com

Freelance photojournalist. Corporate and

editorial clients: New York Times, USAToday, Wells Fargo, Reno Aces.

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 Your assignments

Think about the recession and its effect onhigher education in Nevada and UNR.

You are reporters/web producers/editors atthis publication.

Maintain a blog with weekly updates (threeminimum).

Give a 10 minute group presentation.

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What you will do

Twitter 

WordPress

Cover It Live

Slide shows

Final Cut Express

Amadeus

Google maps CS5

Maintain active account

Weekly blogging

Event coverage

Click through w/ copy

Video story

Audio story

Visual story with data InDesign, Photoshop

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Grades

75 percent: Five stories and grouppresentation

12.5 percent: Five quizzes 12.5 percent: Regular blog posts, at least

three per week

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Instructor blog

www.journalism453.wordpress.com Class news Readings Syllabus Contact info

Publish your work on a class blog, name to

be determined later  Local media outlets (RGJ, Sagebrush, J-schoolwebsite, etc…)

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Required materials

The Associated Press Style Book

Producing Online News, Ryan M. Thornburg

An external hard drive, especially needed for multimedia

Headphones

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Journalism yesterday

Daily news cycles

Legacy media outlets control message

Consumption of one medium, maybe twoResources (Cash, skrill, cheese, $$$)

Credibility (at least more of it)

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Journalism today

1440/7 news cycle

New and authoritative voices (blogosphere)

Consumed over multiple platforms Fewer resources

Credibility perhaps more difficult, unless your 

audience accepts your approach

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Resources, tips

http://nv20.unlv.edu/ http://www.nevadaworkforce.com/ http://www.business.unr.edu/faculty/parker/

Local media: RGJ, Las Vegas Gleaner, Face toFace, etc…

Gawker, Huffington Post, Paul Krugman, MediaStorm, etc…

We’ll post links on the instructor blog, too.

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Twitter 

If you haven’t already, establish one by nextclass

Tucson shooting Thoughts on Twitter by Jay Rosen

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Precautions to consider 

Your work and blogs will be public

The Jordan Butler Experience

When you use Twitter remember you aremaking a public statement that can be readby anyone.

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Blogging

Write a blog post on this: Is Twitter a usefultool for journalism? Why or why not?

E-mail the blog to David and me with thesubject: J453 — All e-mails MUST contain“J453” in the subject line or else they may beoverseen and remain unread.