Course Overview
This practical course introduces students to the essential skills needed to research and write articles for news websites. We’ll also cover basic interviewing, social media, search engines, tracking hits, basic photo editing, how to embed interactive features, online research and verification. The course does not include website design. However students will launch and update their own online journalism website using software available online.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Identify the unique characteristics of online journalism.
- Write original online news stories, and headlines and leads.
- Enhance text stories with interactive and multimedia elements.
- Source, edit and prepare images for web publication.
- Post and update a breaking news story online.
- Use social media for research, storytelling and audience engagement.
- Use search engine optimization and tracking tools.
- Recognize the legal and ethical issues in online journalism.
Effective as of Winter 2012
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