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A Letter from the Editor: Thanks for finding your way to Maryland Newsline. The site launched the week of Jan. 30, 2001, as an effort by the University of Maryland College of Journalism to provide students hands-on opportunities to learn about multimedia reporting, writing, editing and Web production. The site brings you news and features on politics and public policy in Maryland and showcases work from our college's advanced wire service, TV and online news operations. We hope this synergy between the news bureaus will prepare our students for today's newsrooms, which increasingly call on professionals to report or edit for more than one medium. The online newsmagazine will be staffed in fall 2009 by undergraduate and
graduate students. Working in the new-media lab on the College Park, Md.,
campus, the students will report and write multimedia stories for the Web, combining original text, photos, audio and video in their storytelling. They will use their news judgment to update the home page and section fronts and
write interactive quizzes and polls for our special reports on major issues. They will participate in a site blog, send you updates on Twitter and YouTube and provide smart
Web links for stories, write headlines and captions.
The site is also stocked with stories reported and written by the college's Capital News Service students--who
spend a
semester reporting from Washington and Annapolis. And we link to the
nightly newscasts produced by our TV students, who will report and produce packages from the capitals. Their
work airs on the campus cable television station, UMTV. All four news operations are run and edited by
full-time instructor/editors with
long careers as professional journalists. We take accuracy and fairness
seriously and closely supervise our students.
We expect to update the Web site
at least three times a week during the fall semester, which runs from
September through mid-December.
This site builds on the early work of former Associate Dean Christopher Callahan and
former broadcast instructor Chet Rhodes, who in spring 1998 co-taught the college's first online journalism
lab. Their students built Maryland Newsnet, which Maryland Newsline replaced.
If you have any questions, suggestions or gripes about this site, please e-mail me at charvey@jmail.umd.edu.
You may also e-mail the other bureau chiefs with questions or story suggestions,
or call us on the phone numbers listed in the staff box to the right:
Thanks for looking us over and for being patient with our occasional mistakes, which we will quickly correct!
Chris Harvey Last updated: Sept. 7, 2009 Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. |
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Staff Box Who's who at Maryland Newsline and at the college's print and TV news bureaus, fall 2009: Online Bureau Director: Chris Harvey
CNS TV Bureau Director: Find original video from Maryland Newsline mutimedia reporters on YouTube by subscribing to harveyonline2525.
Follow Capital News Service and Maryland Newsline reporters on Twitter by logging in and searching under CNSmd.
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