Texas Southern University Online Journalism 1, 9-15-13
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This document outlines the requirements and topics covered for a course on digital journalism. Students will select a beat to report on using various social media platforms. They must post 10 stories to their website or blog by December 14th and use social media to drive traffic to their stories. The course will focus on journalistic principles and how new digital platforms are changing storytelling. Students will learn skills like writing for online, using social media as a reporting tool, building professional brands, and coding websites. The instructor will use various social media accounts to communicate with students and share resources. Meetings will be held once a month.
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- 1. Covering Under Told Stories Through Emerging Platforms
- 2. Purchase domain name and hosting. See Blackboard posts. The domain should be your first and last name or professional interest (Must approve) Select beat; confirm by Monday, September 16 Must posts 10 stories to your digital space (website, blog) by December 14, 2013 Must use social media as a reporting tool, drive viewers to your stories and build your professional brand. Must communicate through Blackboard, Google Hangout, Skype Must meet once a month The meetings are Wednesday, September 11, MLK 206, Monday, October 14, 1p.m., Multimedia Newsroom in TV Studio; Monday, November 18, 1p.m., Multimedia Newsroom; Monday, December 9, 1p.m., Multimedia Newsroom in TV Studio
- 3. Tweet, Instagram and Hashtag this.#TheJournalismRevolutionIsHere. From the plane on the Hudson River (Twictpic of plane that landed on the Hudson River http://twitpic.com/135xa ) to the Arab Spring (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2013/04/arabspring/ ) and the Trayvon Martin case, (http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/making-sense-of-news/167660/trayvon- martin-story-a-study-in-the-new-tools-of-media-power-justice/ ) journalists and YOU are creating and discovering fresh approaches to telling stories. While this course will focus on journalistic principles, there will be an (emphases) on how the new digital platforms are impacting the storytelling process and media organizations today. There will be a heavy use of social media as a reporting tool. This course will be taught mostly online through Blackboard and my Web enterprises. We will meet once a month to ensure you understand techniques that are being taught. Houston is a great multi-cultural city and we will use it as a laboratory to help you learn how to become a journalist in the digital age. Students will select a beat (with my assistance) and report on that beat for the entire semester. You will be required to post weekly to your digital news space, which will be a blog that will be created in WordPress. You will be required to use social media as a reporting tool, build a professional brand and drive viewers to our enterprise stories, which will be placed on www.socialmediacorrespondents.net.
- 4. Students will learn: journalisms historical significance to TSU @HistoricHouston; about the nations first collegiate social media team, which was created by TSU journalism professor Serbino Sandifer-Walker in 2008 @SSWalker @SMCorrespondent; how to research and write dynamic online stories; @NYTimes @CNNBRK #TwitterNewsChat social media best practices for journalists; @Poynter @Sree how to purchase a domain name and space on the web; @GoDaddy how to manage social media in Hootsuite, analytics, branding; @Hootsuite research techniques, TSU library including virtuals; @LibraryCongress @NiemanLab good story structure, shapes, grammar; @Poynter @NiemanLab @GrammarGirl social media reporting, live tweeting; @SMCorrespondents @SSWalker about the Hashtag #TwitterNewsChat and social media correspondents.com, .net and .org, which were created by Professor Sandifer-Walker; @SSWalker how to use mobiles and tablets as reporting tools; @NABJDigital HTML coding, building websites, WordPress, Tumblr; @NABJDigital the process of working with the campus digital newspaper; @TheTSUHerald the process of meeting deadlines; @CNNBRK @KHOU @MyFoxHouston @ABC13Houston the importance of ethics, integrity and honesty. @JournalismEthics
- 5. Follow Me: Twitter: @SSWalker #TwitterNewsChat Instagram @SerbinoWalker Facebook TSU Current Events Pinterest: SSWalker FlipBoard: Social Media Correspondents and http://socialmediacorrespondents.net/
- 6. Hootsuite Twitter Instagram YouTube Google+ (Google Hangout) Skype Flipboard (Follow Social Media Correspondents)