Week 2: Budget Meeting 2

Week 2 - Budget Meeting - News Team 1

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Individual Reflection and Team Collaboration

Prepare: This week you will work with your news team to design a publication for a print newspaper, The AU Chronicle. The template for the publication should be downloaded to your computer ( Downloading the Templates ). Your news team will be using Google Docs to build the publication. Reference the resource document Using Google Docs for the Print Publication and Broadcast Script prior to your Budget Meeting.

Reflect: Refresh your memory about the audience that you are writing for by reviewing the demographics (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. . Your publication must have a front page and a section for each news team member to write one story. For example, if there are three news team members, there will be a front page story and two sections of the news team’s choice included in the publication. If there are only two members, there will be front page story written by one members and another section included with a story written by another member. News teams may choose from the following sections for their publications:

· Front Page News (required)

· Local News (We will use San Diego for city and California for state news since it is home to AU.)

· Education

· National News

· Finance

· International News

· Health and Medicine

· Politics

· Technology

All team members must bring at least two current news topics for which they feel confident they will be able to get an interview from someone related to the topic (interviews may be conducted via email, in person, or by phone). All ideas will be presented in the Budget Meeting which will take place in Zoom (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. .

The Budget Meeting: Join your news team at the agreed upon time in Zoom session. Be sure to record your meeting session. The team member chosen as Editor-In-Chief will be responsible for starting and sharing the Zoom session in the group area of the course. The news team will decide who will record the meeting and share the link in their Budget Meeting area of the course and who will take notes for the meeting to be shared.

Roles: The roles for this week are as follows:

· Editor-in-Chief

· The Editor-In-Chief will be responsible for downloading the AU Chronicle Template from Doc Sharing and creating access to the workspace for all team members.

· Writers

· Each news team member will write a story for a section of the paper and load it as an individual file to the news team’s Google Drive space for their editor to review. The writer will load their individual PDF file to the space with their last name so it can be identified by the editor. (AUChronicle.TaylorMoore).

· Editors

· Each news team member will edit a section of the publication for another news team member and return the file to the Google Drive space for the writer to review suggestions and edits. The editor will save the file indicating that it has been reviewed (AUChronicle.TaylorMoore_edited). To understand how to use editing marks in a PDF, review the Basic Proofreading Markup For PDFs Using Acrobat Reader XI (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. video.

Discussion: Every person must be a part of the Budget Meeting discussion presenting ideas and dialoging on the best approach to take in gathering and presenting the news.

Extenuating Circumstances: If there is an extenuating circumstance that has a verifiable excuse, the student must contact the instructor for guidance on the necessary steps to take. The students, however, must still participate with the news team in the writing and editing of the publication.

Deadlines: Students must submit work in the Google workspace and in the Budget Meeting area in the course by the following deadlines:

· The Editor-In-Chief is responsible for posting the recording in the team’s discussion area immediately after the session ends on Thursday, Day 3.

· All articles must be loaded to the Google workspace by Saturday, Day 5 so that editors will have an opportunity to suggest edits.

· All stories must be loaded to the news team’s publication by Monday, Day 7.

· The Editor-In-Chief must be sure that the publication is ready for downloading by Monday, Day 7 no later than 11:59 PM.

The team is required to continue using the Budget Meeting space in the course throughout the week to share and dialogue about challenges and successes. A minimum of two posts are required of all team members.