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Welcome
to Skyline Journalism
They Did It Again!
Congratulations to the staff of The Skyline View for winning General Excellence for
Online Journalism at the 2008 Journalism Association of Community Colleges State
Convention in Los Angeles April 3-6, 2008. Check out their work at www.theskylineview.com.
Click
here for a short
narrated slideshow from the convention.
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Thinking of taking a
journalism class during
Fall 2008? Click here for student testimonials. Then, check out the syllabi below.
VIEWPOINTS PODCAST
Episode #1
Click here for the print
version of ViewPoints,
the Journalism Department newsletter
ALSO, CHECK OUT THESE ISSUES
OF VIEWPOINTS, THE JOURNALISM
DEPARTMENT NEWSLETTER:
Fall 2004
Spring 2005
Fall 2005
Spring 2006
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Homework for Wed.
May 21: Note schedule change (as voted
on in class): Last day to turn in
late work.
Term Paper (due Friday) handouts:
1) Term
paper assignments
2) peer
response sheet
3)
MLA documentation handout
A note of encouragement:
HANG IN THERE! You are almost
done with the semester. Keep your
motivation going! Also, here is
the daily unit schedule for the rest of the
semester.
Here is the timeline you can download.
Past Homework: Read Ch. #15 (excerpted) and do the reading questions.
Please read Ch.
#14 on law and regulation. Then, do
these reading questions. Please
read excerpted Ch.
#13 and do these reading questions. Here are the
study questions for Exam #3. 1) Please type a revised outline for your term paper and staple the
original to the back. Here are the original instructions. 2) Media Clip #7.
Please read Ch.
#12 on advertising and do the reading questions.
Please do this PR
exercise.
Please read Ch.
#11 (public relations) and do the reading
questions. ALSO, here is your
extra credit opportunity: Click here to get directions on evaluating
McWhortle.com.
Please read Ch.
#10 on the Internet and do these reading
questions.
Please study chapters #6-9 (film,
radio, TV, and video games). Here are the study
questions for Friday’s exam.
Please type an outline for your term paper. Read this for further instructions.
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Links to Internet videos we watched:
Web 2.0
Epic 2015 (about Google)
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Homework for Wed.
May 21: Jour 120: Production #8 is Wednesday night. Last day to turn in late work. Please also type up four exam questions for
our final.
Jour 121: Your data-driven article is due at the
BEGINNING of class, excluding the Excel graphic.
Past Homework: Please read pp. 135-149 on law and
ethics, and prepare for an open-note quiz.Jour 120: Style worksheet exercise. Please post a blog entry in which you link
to a narrated slideshow and critique it.
Jour 121: Google your basic blog
theme and the words “database” and then “statistics” to find what databases
or statistical sites are out there that deal with that them. Then, post a blog that summarizes your
findings and includes about five links to different sites.
Please bring in your outline or draft in preparation for finishing a
final draft of the cell phone feature story.
Here is the exercise we did
in class today. We’re meeting in class
first.
Read pp. 116-119 on feature writing and prepare for open-note quiz.
Jour 120: 1) Bring in your accident report and notes, and 2) do this style worksheet
exercise. Jour 121: 1) Please bring in your court record and
your notes and 2) fill out this beat sheet.. (Please fill out both, one for the View and
one for me.)
121 for 4-16: Post a blog
entry. For this one, either refute or
defend some controversial aspect of your blog theme. Include at least one link.
Please bring in final draft of the police news conference story we
started in the lab on Friday.
Go to www.jacconline.org and
look for the City Council simulation link on the left hand side as you scroll
down. The full story will be due on
Friday.
Meeting article. Some tips: Remember to focus on one main action/issue
from the school board meeting. Then,
you can (and should) mention other action taken at the meeting by saying
something like, “In other action, the board voted to:” followed by bulleted
items. Don’t forget to format this
like a real article, using a slug and –30—a the end, etc. Please also double
space.
Jour 120: Blog entry: Respond to
this prompt: Is it okay to clean up a
source’s quote for poor grammar or should you only run quotes verbatim (word
for word what they said)? Explain and
support your answer. Jour 121: Blog entry prompt: Write an entry in which you identify and
include links to other blogs (or blog entries) that cover a topic similar to
yours or diametrically opposed to yours.
I’ve already done a Google search for each of your blog topics and
each of you is part of a blog community covering similar issues. Try your own Google search and see what you
come up with! Jour 121, please
download this Unit #1 schedule for
Journalism 121, if you don’t already have it.
Jour 121: Post your next blog entry, including two
links in it. Jour 120: Do Tim Harrower’s exercise 3-3.3 and email
it to me. When you get to his site, go to student edition, chapter #3 and
find the specific exercise. We did
3-3.2 on Wednesday in class, if you want to make it up.
Jour 121: You will be conducting
an interview during our class on Wednesday, using this sheet as a guide. You will check in
with me at 10:10 and then leave for your in-person or phone interview
scheduled for 10:20. To get an A on
this exercise, you will have a pre-arranged interview set up. If you absolutely can’t confirm an
interview with someone, you will need to come in with a TYPED list of 10-15
people (and their phone numbers) you can call during the 40-minute period I’m
giving you to do this. Put yourself in
the mindset of a working reporter for this.
Jour 120: Please do Style Worksheet #1, using pp. 54-55 in
our textbook to help you.
Jour 121: Here are the audio clips for
Jour 121 for Flood Story #3:
Roger Craig,
chair of the Citizens Against Flood Tax
Councilmember Janice Ricardios
Jour 120: Please type this Special Leads Exercise #1
Jour 121: Here are the three “interviews” you did
for your story:
Interview #1
Interview #2
Interview #3
Directions: Listen carefully for them
for the nut graf and any story that could work for your narrative lead. After listening to the interviews, write a
narrative lead and nut graf. You will
have 3-5 paragraphs of writing, typed. Watch for accuracy.
Jour 120: Please find a
anecdotal/narrative lead from any online newspaper or magazine.
1) Posted it in quotes or italics to your blog.
2) Link it to the original spot you saw it published.
3) Critique it: Why did the writer use
a narrative lead here instead of a summary lead?
4) Post the nut graf and label it as such.
*Make sure you cite your source, so that it doesn’t look like the lead is
YOUR writing.
Jour 121: Please do Broadcast Writing Exercise #2; this must
be typed.
Jour 120: Read the profile written about you by your
classmate. Post a blog entry
detailing how it felt to have someone publish something about you. Also, address in your blog the extent to
which the information was accurate. (See right for blog links.) Jour 121: Please post
blog entry #2. Your entry should
include two links to other sources that add some authority to your topic.
Lead Exercise #2.
1) Read pp. 40-43 on lead writing, 2) prepare for an open-note quiz (you
can bring in any written notes on the reading that you would like and use the
notes as a “cheat sheet.”), and 3) complete Lead
Exercise #1 and bring it to class.
Please post the profile of your classmate to your blog by 9 a.m. These profiles should be no more than 300
words and should contain at least two direct quotes.
Please read pp. 16-17 in Inside Reporting. Then, fill out this
exercise and bring it to class.
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Jour 120 Blogs:
1.
Dominic:
www.godomgo.blogspot.com
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Marcia:
http://marcia-brazilian.blogspot.com/
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Rommel:
http://rommelneedstotransfer.blogspot.com/
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Stephanie:
http://stephuwrites.blogspot.com/
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Steven:
http://sperotti-crypticrantings.blogspot.com/
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Kristi:
http://dditheringg.blogspot.com
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Paul: http://paulsieger.blogspot.com/
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Kathryn:
http://kathrynsjournalismblog.blogspot.com
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Nai: http://nai120.blogspot.com
10.
Jennifer:
http://raccooons.blogspot.com/
11.
Benny: http://zonezeroh-facesofreality.blogspot.com
Jour 121 Blogs:
1.
John: http://harrisonversustobacco.blogspot.com/
2.
Shannon: http://copyright-1983.blogspot.com/
3.
Nick: http://bavisions.blogspot.com
4.
Enrico: http://greasynuggetsheartattack.blogspot.com/
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