Calendar

WEEK

LAB

THURSDAY LECTURE

ASSIGNMENTS DUE (Thurs.)

Week 1 (Jan. 12)

Outline class

Pick Beats

Set Up Blogs

Upload HTML resumes

The Online News Audience: Macro and Micro

Upload HTML resume with photo to UNC servers via FTP.

Read State of the News Media (online section)

Read Basics of Web Publishing

Week 2 (Jan. 19)

Editing for online (linking, copyright, searchability, skimmability)

Jared/Ollie North

Your first blog post (Jan. 22 @ 11 a.m.)

Read links about editing/writing for online.

Week 3 (Jan. 26)

Audio/Video boot camp

Voice of the Blogger

Blog posts. Daily @ 11 a.m.

Week 4 (Feb. 2)

Data Driven boot camp

Intro to the Publication/ Reporting for Multimedia/Story pitches for 2/19 ed.

Read data driven links.

Week 5 (Feb. 9)

Introduction to Wordpress CMS, index pages and linksets (and maybe SEO). FAQ in-class exercise

Budget meeting/discuss first story pitches for 2/19

Story pitch (Feb. 12 @ 9:30 a.m.)

Week 6 (Feb. 16)

PUBLISH

Budget Meeting for 3/5 ed.

Stories (Feb. 19 @ 2 p.m.)

Week 7 (Feb. 23)

[PARNM class presents to newspaper partners]

Multimedia Project Planning/ Discuss Final Project

Story pitch (Feb. 26 @ 9:30 a.m.)

Week 8 (Mar. 2)

PUBLISH (with Lab Assistant. Thornburg works with PARNM)

Budget Meeting/Site Reviews for 3/26

Stories (Feb. 5 @ 2 p.m.)

Week 9 (March 9)

 

Spring Break

 

Week 10 (March 16)

[Thornburg launches discussion boards with PARNM]

Present Final Project Proposals

Story pitch (March 19 @ 9:30 a.m.)

Project Proposals (March 19 @ 9:30 a.m.)

Week 11 (March 23)

PUBLISH

Budget Meeting/Site Reviews for 4/9

Stories (March 26 @ 2 p.m.)

Week 12 (March 30)

Open lab

Crowdsourcing, Pro-Am Journalism, User-Gen content

Story pitch (9:30 a.m.)

Week 13 (April 6)

PUBLISH

Budget Meeting/Site Reviews for 4/23

Stories: 2 p.m.

Week 14 (April 13)

Open lab

Content Aggregation/Disaggregation

Story pitch: 9:30 a.m.

Week 15 (April 20)

PUBLISH

The Future of News

Stories: 2 p.m.