WEEK |
LAB |
THURSDAY LECTURE |
ASSIGNMENTS DUE (Thurs.) |
Week 1 (Jan. 12) |
Outline class Pick Beats |
The Online News Audience: Macro and Micro |
Upload HTML resume with photo to UNC servers via FTP. |
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 |
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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. |