Week 2: Budget Meeting 2

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Budget meetings are a necessary part of news media organizations. It is the time where individuals and departments come together to plan what news they will deliver to their audience and how to present it. Since you will be simulating real-world media organizations in this course, you will also have budget meetings.

The purpose of your live budget meetings and consistent collaboration in the Budget Meeting area of the course will be to work together to produce an investigative report suited for various media platforms that will be submitted in Week 5 of the course. Your investigative report will be in the form of a print publication and a broadcast script. The publications are fictitious in name. You will be using templates to simulate various media platforms that you will download from the classroom. While each of the templates are designed as an individual publication, once you have written your individual contributions, you will work with your News Team to combine elements of each report to create a cohesive investigative story.

This means that parts of the story you wrote will be interwoven with parts from your News Team members. The following resources will help you to understand how to download the templates and use the platforms to present your work.

· Downloading the Templates

· Using Google Docs for the Print Publication and Broadcast Script

· Using Google Sites for the Digital Publication

In Day 1 of the course, you will indicate your time zone and flexibility. By Day 2, your instructor will have placed you in news teams based on this information. This week, you will meet the news team you will work within Weeks 2, 3, and 4 of the course to produce the investigate report due in Week 5 of the course.

Since budget meetings in the real world are face-to-face, you will be using Zoom to conduct your weekly meetings. Zoom allows you to use video, voice, and text to communicate with one another. You will be required to use video and voice to communicate with your groups. In addition to the live meeting, you will also continue to use the budget meeting discussion area each week to collaborate with your team members according to the instructions for each week of the course.