Class Schedule

• “Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Outlet,” Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, Dec. 23, 2008.
• “Twitter for Newshounds,” Amy Gahran, July 9, 2008
• “Twittering Tips for Beginners“, David Pogue, Jan. 15, 2009.
• “Twitter’s Secret Handshake,” Amanda Parker, NYT, June 10, 2011.
• A crib sheet: “Journo Tweeting,”Ellen Angelotti, Nov. 18, 2008.
• Pages 7-16, Foust. Pay particular attention to any vocabulary words you encounter.
• “The Online Journalism Skills that Get Jobs,” Laura Ruel, Poynter.org, March 4, 2008.
• “How Useful (and Useable) is your Site?,” Mark Potts, Recovering Journalist blog, July 9, 2009.

• Lecture: Online journalism, an introduction
• Lecture: Yes, we talk about Twitter
• Twitter assignment (handed out in-class) is due at the beginning of class on Feb. 7.

• Search engines, tools for reporters on the Web and Web research.
• In-class exercise on credible sources on the Web.
• A brief history of the Internet
• Anatomy of a Web site

• “Oh, The Places Journalists Should Go,” by Al Tompkins, Poynter.org, Nov. 12, 2001.
• Journalist’s Toolbox: Search engines archives.
• “10 Simple Google Search Tricks,” New York Times, April 2, 2010.
• Foust, Chapter 5, “Using Online Reporting Sources.”
• Foust, Chapter 2, “Tools and Terminology.”
• “Aggregators, curators and indexers: There’s a difference and it matters,” C.W. Anderson, Nieman Journalism Lab, June 1, 2010.
• “New York Times Invites Developers to ‘Hack the News’ with New API,” Steve Myers, Poynter Online, Feb. 9, 2009.
• “How to Save Your Newspaper,” Walter Isaacson, Time magazine, Feb. 5, 2009.
• “Wikileaks Releases Afghan War Reports in Unprecentd Leak,” Mashable, July 25, 2010.

• Lecture: Trusting the Internet
• Research assignment (due Feb. 14)
• Lecture: History of the Internet
• Video: 1981 TV report on future of newspapers

• Introduction to basic HTML markup. (Hyperlinks, lists, image tags and more.
• How to create a .PDF of your resume.
• HTML continued
• There will be a basic HTML handout. You may use Webmonkey tutorials as a guide. Your textbook has a basic overview as well.

• The Html Basics” from Webmonkey.com.
• Foust, Chapter 6, “Creating and Managing Web Content.”
• Handout: AP Style quiz
• Handout: Blog assignment info

• Lecture: HTML basics
• HTML handout
• Vocab/AP style quiz handout (Quiz Feb. 21)

• AP web-related style quiz.
• Using images on the Web
• What makes a good image?
• Storytelling with interactive media’s most effective tool: the photo gallery.
• From eyetracking: How Internet users see and ignore images

• Using images: technology
• Scanning, sizing and cropping in Photoshop.
• Creating basic web banners in Photoshop.
• File sizes, file types and best practices.

• “Distorted Picture,” by Sherry Ricchiardi, from the August/September 2007 issue of AJR.
• “Horror Show,” by Farhad Manjoo, Slate.com, May 12, 2004.
• “The Accidental Photojournalist,” Al Thomkins, Poynter.org, May 10, 2004.

• Lecture: Language of Image from Newsu.org (registration required)
• Photo gallery assignment
• Resume and Clips WordPress project
• Building a better photo gallery handout | Editing Images Cheat Sheet | Image Copyright | Writing A Better Caption
• Lecture: Using images

• Intro to interactive media. How we can use all media to tell stories.
• What makes good video, audio and multimedia.

• Foust, Chapter 10, “Using Multimedia, Mashups and APIs.”
• Foust, Chapter 11, “Gathering Editing Images, Audio and Video.”
• Mindy McAdams’ “Flash Journalism: Professional Practice Today,” published on OJR on Sept. 22, 2005
• Elizabeth A. Ferris’ “Rethinking the Multimedia Experience,” published on PoynterOnline on Nov. 16, 2005
• “Multimedia: An Adolescent, but No Longer an Orphan,” Poynter.org, April 1, 2008.
• Poynter: “How Online Video Improves Journalism,” Al Tompkins, May 28, 2008.
• “Lines, Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data,” Anne Eisenberg, New York Times, Aug. 30, 2008. After reading, try using Many Eyes.
• Explore entries on Interactive Narratives.
• Tish Grier’s “Can we all just learn to interact?” in the June 13, 2006, edition of OJR
• Robert I. Berkman’s “Is It Appropriate for Reporters to Lurk in Online Chat Rooms?” in the Feb. 2, 2004, issue of OJR
• Matt Welch’s “What If You Couldn’t Trust the New York Times?” in the April 24, 1999, issue of OJR
• Howard Kurtz’s “Dallas Paper’s Story: A Scoop That Wasn’t,” in the Jan. 28, 1998, Washington Post

Photoshop Assignment | Photos for assignment

• Legal issues in cyberspace.
• Can news sites be held liable for comments posted on bulletin boards?
• Is it OK to copy source code from another site to mimic design?
• What about republishing someone else’s text, photos and graphics?

• In-class ethics assignments.

• Readings on copyright
  • Foust, Chapter 12, “Legal and Ethical Issues.”
  • A handy online guide: “10 Big Myths about copyright explained,” new-media publisher Brad Templeton’s wise-guy analysis of a complicated subject.
  • “Copyright Issues Present Ongoing Dilemma: To Link or Not To Link?” by Robert I. Berkman, in the Oct. 1, 2003, edition of OJR

  Readings on credibility issues

  • Bob Steele and Bill Mitchell’s “Removing Content: When to Unring the Bell?” in the Aug. 27, 2007, issue of Poynter.org
  • Chris Harvey’s “Journalists Are Still Wary of Online News,” in the December 2001 issue of AJR
  • Patrick Thorton’s “Racism, Attacks Lead News Sites to Disable Story Comments,” July 24, 2009, Poynter.org.

In-class ethics handouts

• Review for midterm. We play Jeopardy. And there’s extra credit for the winners and candy for everybody else. So you’d best come to class.

• Midterm

• Online design and navigation issues, eye tracking studies, audience concerns and the importance of folder structure to Web building and Web addresses.
• Web site planning and why you can’t have a good site without it.
• Using Dreamweaver to create Web pages; more on CSS.

• Foust, Chapter 6, “Web Page Design.”
• “Surfing the Web for Design Lessons,” by Anne Van Wagener, for PoynterOnline, Jan. 31, 2005 edition
• “Eyetracking points the way to effective news design,” by Laura Ruel and Nora Paul, OJR, March 13, 2008.
• “Early lessons from Poynter’s EyeTrack07,” by Laura Ruel and Nora Paul, OJR, April 14, 2007.
• Foust, Appendix A and B, CSS code.
• See the W3Schools’ explanation of CSS, and for an explanation of differences between external, internal and inline CSS
• -Dreamweaver: Getting Down to Basics,and Creating Links in Dreamweaver; tutorials from Internet4Classrooms
• Webmonkey’s tutorials on site design
• Webmonkey’s “The Foundation of Web Design“

• Lecture: Intro to CSS
• Lecture: CSS and wireframing
• Assignment: Wireframe your multimedia project

• Guest speaker: Julia Schmlaz, BGov video producer
• Multimedia how-tos:
• Google Maps
• Photo galleries
• Interactive quizzes/polls
• More how-tos:
• More compicated maps
• Compressing and embedding audio and video clips

• The growth of blogs
• Why bloggers/Twitters/regular folks MATTER
• How to use reader engagement to drive traffic
• The advertising model is broken
• How we’re going to pay for what we do.
• New models for journalism

• Nico Mcdonald’s “Comment Is Free, But Designing Communities Is Hard,” in the Aug. 17, 2006, edition of OJR
• Robert Niles’ “Can Newspapers Do Blogs Right?” in the April 23, 2006, edition of OJR
• Mark Glaser’s “NOLA.com blogs and forums help save lives after Katrina,” in the Sept. 13, 2005, edition of OJR
• Barb Palser’s “Journalism’s Backseat Drivers,” in the August/September 2005 issue of AJR
• Mark Glaser’s “Bloggers, Citizen’s Media and Rather’s Fall: Little People Rise Up in 2004,” in the Dec. 21, 2004, edition of OJR
• Rachel Smolkin’s “The Expanding Blogosphere,” in the June/July 2004 issue of AJR
• “Freewheeling Comments, Traditional Owners Create Paradox of Topix,” Poynter’s Biz Blog, by Rick Edmonds, Oct. 7, 2008.
• Michael Agger’s “How do bloggers make money?“, Slate Magazine, Oct. 4, 2008.
• Aly Colon’s “Blogs and Ethics” in the April 22, 2004, edition of PoynterOnline
• J.D. Lasica’s “When Bloggers Commit Journalism,” in OJR’s Sept. 24, 2002, issue
• Catherine Seipp’s “Online Uprising,” in the June 2002 issue of AJR
• Staci D. Kramer’s “The Perfect News Incubator” in the Dec. 18, 2002, issue of OJR
• Wikis: “Wikipedia: Teapot Tempest,” by Wade Roush, in the Dec. 7, 2005, issue of Technology Review”
• “Collaborative Conundrum: Do Wikis Have a Place in the Newsroom?” by Mark Glaser in the Sept. 10, 2004, edition of OJR
• See also blog tracking sites Technorati and The Truth Laid Bare
• Jeff South’s “No Secrets” in the April 2000 issue of AJR.
• “How the Web Was Won,” by columnist Leslie Walker, in the Aug. 3, 2006, Washington Post
• “Online opportunities make journalism’s future bright, despite gloomy feelings,” by Rich Gordon, in the Oct. 27, 2005, edition of OJR-Cynthia Gorney’s “Superhire 2000” in the December 2000 issue of AJR
• “The Revenge of the Experts,” by Tony Dokoupil, published March 6, 2008 on newsweek.com

• Work on multimedia projects.

• NO CLASS. USE TIME FOR BLOGGING AND WORKING ON MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS.
• WE’LL SET UP A TIME OVER THE WEEKEND FOR ME TO COME IN FOR OPEN LAB IF YOU NEED MORE HELP.

• Share multimedia projects.

• Last final three blog posts due between May 8 and May 16.