Week 4: Students Response to Discussion, Editing and News Story

The impact of digital media on news coverage and delivery is undeniable. Many of us have our news delivered directly to us via our laptops or smartphones. The greatest draw of digital media is getting everything in one place with the ability to be selective about what you get and when you get it. Digital media is what makes convergence a reality.

For this assignment, you will write a story for a digital media platform tailored to your local community. You will also create two social media feeds for Facebook and Twitter that brings attention to the story that is on the digital media platform. The length of the actual story for the platform must be at least 350 words for each story.

Topic and Sources of Information: The issue that you choose to write about must be current and have some relevance for your local community, city, and/or state. You may derive the information for this story from print or broadcast media only. You will need to access several print publications and broadcast new programs-- including radio and television-- and take notes of the facts of the story.

For this assignment you must:

· Adhere to the Digital News Publications Template

· Adhere to AP style

· Create an engaging headline for the story and for the social media posts

· Write the story according to the Inverted Pyramid

· Summarize facts and/or statistics that are relevant to the story

· Develop the story for the local audience

· Compare two opposing opinions about the topic

· Provide proper attribution for all sources of information included (facts, statistics, images/video, and opinions).

· Incorporate visual elements to enhance the story and the social media posts