This week, we will:
- Continue to set up our reporting blog with co-authoring permissions
- Identify the preferred blogging platform (e.g. Wordpress, Tumblr, Blogger, etc.)
- Identify the name of your semester-long blog
- Prepare a branded logo and theme/design for your blog
- Review and discuss "traditional" journalism standards vs. blogging
- Begin work on your first reporting assignment
- Read the following chapters:
- 2: Selecting and Reporting the News
- 10: Quotations and Attributions
- 11: Interviewing
- 17: Feature Writing