| source Northwestern (X) |
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department JOUR Journalism (X) |
Essentials of newspaper editing and online production, including headlines, page layout and design, photo editing, information graphics, and appropriate electronic tools.
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Writing & producing broadcasts for television, the web, and alternative digital platforms (such as PDAs) using the appropriate computer and editing equipment, news wires, and video feeds. Emphasis on the editorial decision-making process.
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The craft of digital storytelling, with emphasis on creating compelling packages for the web and other digital platforms (such as PDAs) using a variety of narrative formats, interactive tools (such as Flash), and other digital content, including blogs, RSS feeds, and citizen journalism.
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The craft of audio-video storytelling for television and the web, including practice in field reporting and producing packages ranging from one- to three-minute television news pieces to longer alternative audio-video formats for the web and other digital platforms.
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The legal and ethical framework defining media freedoms and constraints in the United States, including copyright and trademark issues. Historical context and focus on the evolution of constitutional, statutory, judicial, and ethical standards.
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Students in the class will investigate wrongful convictions -- cases in which prisoners were convicted of crimes they did not commit -- and related aspects of the criminal justice system.
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Advanced skills and practice in telling stories with photographs, photo slideshows, photo galleries, and audio slideshows. Ethics as it applies to photojournalism.
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Students learn about the global immigration phenomenon, how to tell multimedia immigrant stories for publication and engage in creating a social network for immigrants across ethnic lines. Using the Chicago metropolitan area, students report on immigrant experiences and develop a forum for community-based personal narratives.
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Exposes students to the range of journalism genres and media in which they are practiced; how and why journalism practices and industries have evolved and continue to evolve in the digital age; how people access, use, and participate in news and information. Includes modules on ethical decision making and professional behavior. The course connects current trends with the history of journalism.
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Essentials of newspaper editing and online production, including headlines, page layout and design, photo editing, information graphics, and appropriate electronic tools.
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The craft of digital storytelling, with emphasis on creating compelling packages for the Web and other digital platforms (such as PDAs) using a variety of narrative formats, interactive tools (such as Flash), and other digital content, including blogs, RSS feeds, and citizen journalism.
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Students work in groups on a single reporting project throughout the quarter that incorporates video, audio, interactivity and photography. The class will also discuss and critique existing work from media professionals. Students must have experience with Adobe Flash and non-linear digital video editing software.
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This class exposes students to the architecture of varied magazines and deepens reporting and writing skills. It emphasizes the kind of interviewing, and immersion reporting, most likely to yield excellent feature stories. WeÂll look at Âmagazine-like presentations in newspaper feature sections as well as online magazines. ThereÂs a moderate reading load, but heavy requirement for spending time on in-depth reporting and intensive interviewing in person off-campus.
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Writing and producing broadcasts for television, the Web, and alternative digital platforms (such as PDAs) using the appropriate computer and editing equipment, news wires, and video feeds. Emphasis on the editorial decision-making process.
Score: 11.894127 Details | Listing | Web page
The legal and ethical framework defining media freedoms and constraints in the United States, including copyright and trademark issues. Historical context and focus on the evolution of constitutional, statutory, judicial, and ethical standards.
Score: 11.894127 Details | Listing | Web page
Students in the class will investigate wrongful convictions -- cases in which prisoners were convicted of crimes they did not commit -- and related aspects of the criminal justice system.
Score: 11.894127 Details | Listing | Web page
Advanced skills and practice in telling stories with photographs, photo slideshows, photo galleries, and audio slideshows. Ethics as it applies to photojournalism.
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Students learn about the global immigration phenomenon, how to tell multimedia immigrant stories for publication and engage in creating a social network for immigrants across ethnic lines. Using the Chicago metropolitan area, students report on immigrant experiences and develop a forum for community-based personal narratives.
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Seminar explores the myriad issues journalists must understand in order to cover sports in depth. This class is not about game coverage. Students write about topics such as steroid abuse, stadium finance, sexual scandals and other issues swirling about professional sports.
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Class examines the job of covering sports for a newspaper in a competitive environment enhanced by the Internet, talk radio and other media. Students cover local high school and college teams and conferences as beats. Assignments include personality profiles, features, trend/issue stories and notebooks. Goal is publishable, engaging stories.
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Required class for students concentrating in Interactive Storytelling. Class focuses on interactive and multimedia storytelling and development. Students learn techniques for creating Web pages and packages using XHTML/CSS and Flash with video and audio integration, and methods for creating engaging interactive content.
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Course taught by nationally-recognized graphics instructor covers basic visual journalism. The goal is to develop fundamental skills needed to design newspapers, magazines, newsletters. Through weekly hands-on workshop exercises, students gain an understanding of design concepts. Students learn how to choose typefaces according to the readership and publication, impact of color on perception and behavior, how to develop ways of telling engaging stories about ordinary people via design.
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Class is required of anyone planning to go abroad in a Global residency. Course covers a variety of issues that international correspondents need to understand, including contemporary issues and conflicts, international security issues, cultural sensitivity in reporting abroad and the impact of globalization. Students learn how to get started working a beat in another country.
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This advanced weekly seminar focuses on issues of concern to local and regional governments and the communities they serve. Structure is a seminar with deep reporting assignments. Students get behind the scenes in city, state and institutional meetings not normally open to the press, cover urban and regional issues in depth.
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This seminar provides a conceptual framework for writing about business and economics.
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