Week 4: Discussion One and Two

Required Readings and Multimedia To successfully complete this week’s assignments, read the following chapters from the text, Elements of News Writing: Chapter Twenty-Five – How to Market Feature Stories Chapter Twenty-Six – How Newspapers Are Organized Chapter Twenty-Seven – How to Plan a Newspaper Chapter Twenty-Eight – How to Lay Out Pages Chapter Twenty-Nine – How to Write Headlines To successfully complete this week’s assignments, read the following chapters from the text, Writing for the Mass Media: Chapter 9: Writing and Images To successfully complete this week’s assignments, read the following articles: Jenkins, K. (2012, Jun. 19). The benefits, drawbacks of using camera phones as a photojournalist (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Poynter. Retrieved from http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/177433/the-benefits-drawbacks-of-using-camera-phones-as-a-photojournalist/ McLeod, G. (2013). 30 best tools for data visualization (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. [Blog]. Code Geekz. Retrieved from http://codegeekz.com/30-best-tools-for-data-visualization/?utm_content=bufferd6168&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Soskey, G. (2014, May 12). The anatomy of a highly shareable infographic (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. [Blog]. Hubspot. Retrieved from http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/the-anatomy-of-a-shareable-infographic Maenpaa, Jenni (2014). Rethinking Photojournalism: The Changing Work Practices and Professionalism of Photojournalists in the Digital Age. Nordicom Review, Vol. 35:2, p. 91-104. Retrieved from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxy-library.ashford.edu/eds/detail/detail?vid=4&sid=d9ff74c3-ce1a-499d-b829-beaf94c5cfde%40sessionmgr4003&hid=4111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=99720971&db=ufh Golan, Guy and Greg Munno (2014). Few Latin American Items Appear on Editorial Pages. Newspaper Research Journal, Vol 35:1, p. 20-35. Retrieved from http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.proxy-library.ashford.edu/eds/detail/detail?vid=7&sid=f8614400-cd64-4d70-a9fa-23cb885c0b62%40sessionmgr115&hid=127&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=94904183&db=ufh To successfully complete this week’s assignments, watch the following videos: Sleeth, S. (Writer & director). (2005). Hot off the press: Inside a daily newspaper (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. [Video]. Retrieved from the Films On Demand database. Thomson Reuters Foundation. (2012). 7 photojournalism tips by Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. [Video]. Retrieved from http://vimeo.com/48815231 Gilbert, Elizabeth (2009).Your Elusive Creative Genius (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. [Video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA&index=4&list=PLqG2PK5f9LJvFLzUgKJ2zEcA1U1OSVC-X To successfully complete this week’s discussion, “Writing an Editorial Response,” read the following article: How to Write Newspaper Editorials (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (This article website provides an explanation for how to write newspaper editorials. This information will be used for writing editorials.) Selvin, Barbara (2015). The Status of Editorial Writing in Australian, Canadian, and U.S. Weekly Newspapers. Grassroots Editor, Vol 56:1, p. 25-36. Retrieved from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxy-library.ashford.edu/eds/detail/detail?vid=13&sid=d9ff74c3-ce1a-499d-b829-beaf94c5cfde%40sessionmgr4003&hid=4111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=108933505&db=ufh Recommended Websites To successfully complete this week’s discussion, “Photographs and Graphics,” it is recommended that you review the multimedia at the following website: MediaStorm: A Multimedia Production Studio (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (This online publication has an emphasis on multimedia and images used in journalism.)