Week 1 – News Story
Final Project Proposal: Local News Media Package
For this weeks assignment you will complete a proposal for the Final Project which requires you to create a Local News Package around an issue that is current controversial and of national or international importance. You must also review the Final Project for detailed requirements about the Local News Package.
In considering a topic you should spend the week engaging in national news coverage to include print media television radio and digital media. It is important that you choose a variety of media and that you consider the impact and element of human interest to your local audience.The issue that you choose for the Final Project may not be the same or linked to other issues or topics you will write about in other weeks of the course.
The proposal must:
Saving Your Work:To maintain the formatting of your work you are strongly encouraged to save your assignment as a PDF file. View Saving a Word Document as a PDF for steps on how to do this.
Check it!Your print news stories must be submitted through Grammarly and Turnitin prior to submission.
Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
Week 2 – Discussion
Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses.
Print Media Lives On
Week 1 – Editing Exercise
Copy editing
Read Chapter 1 and 2 in The Complete Editor. Then complete Exercise 1.9.Rewrite the story in a Word document.
For this assignment you must:
Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
Week 2 – Editing Exercise
Accuracy Clarity Brevity
Read Chapter 3 and 4 in The Complete Editor. The complete Exercise 4.10. Rewrite the story in a Word document.
For this assignment you must:
Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
Week 2 – News Story
Hot off the Press
Print news media is something that has been debated over time and time again in regards to its survival. However it still has a lot of power especially for those who are looking for local news. For this week you will write a print story for two different types of print publications in your local area. The first story will be 350 words and it will be tailored for your mainstream city or state newspaper. The second print news story will be 350 words and tailored for an alternative print publication in or near your local area.
Topic and Sources of Information:The issue that you choose to write about must be current and have some relevance for your local community city and/or state. You must derive the information for this story from broadcast media only. You will need to watch several broadcast new programs for mention of the story and take notes of the facts of the story from several national television or radio broadcasts.
For this assignment you must:
Saving Your Work:To maintain the formatting of your work you are strongly encouraged to save your assignment as a PDF file. View Saving a Word Document as a PDF for steps on how to do this.
Check it!Your print news stories must be submitted through Grammar and Turnitin prior to submission.
Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment Carefully review the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate this Discussion Thread.