Digital Journalism II

Catalog description

Digital Journalism II explores how online and mobile news stories are reported, produced, and distributed on various digital platforms. Students will learn what it takes to create high-quality, innovative, multi-platform stories while adhering to the traditional standards of news judgment, accuracy, fairness and truth. Students will study and analyze award-winning online news stories to gain insight into reporting and storytelling techniques. They will learn how to generate enterprising story ideas through original reporting, develop a “digital-first” workflow for reporting and news content creation, gain an understanding of the unique characteristics of text, photos, audio, video and graphics and when to use each to present a story in the most compelling manner, and explore innovative ways to adapt traditional news story formats for online and mobile audiences. In the end, students will complete several portfolio-worthy or publishable news stories. In the past, student work from this course has been published in NJ.com, WHYY.org, South Jersey Times and South Jersey Magazine.