Every week we'll be posting original work from our staff and packaging stories from the other
three news bureaus run by the college.
Students taking JOUR 355 will be given alternating responsibility for
updating one to two sections each week:
Students taking JOUR 353 will focus more on their own reporting, but will
also be asked to do update one section front each week.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, we'll talk early in the day about story, link, photo
and graphic choices for the home page and other sections. On Fridays, I'll spend
time one-on-one with students taking JOUR 353, to discuss story assignments.
I'll be help all students with basic PhotoShop--sizing and cropping pictures--and with
using FrontPage to build tables for charts. All of your computers are also
loaded with the Web-editing tool Dreamweaver, so I'd encourage you to try using it.
I'll also try to help you with other tools and software in the lab--and
occasionally bring in
professional guests to give us additional tips and advice.
Most importantly, I'll be helping you to make sense of your stories--the reporting,
writing and editing of them. This is, after all, a newsmagazine, and your
primary jobs here are reporting and editing.
ONE KEY POINT: No one but me should be saving stories, section fronts or the
home page onto the L drive--which
publishes our pages live onto the Web. You will normally work on stories in the
H drive, and copy them to X when you're ready for me to edit them.
You may, however, move photos and
graphics and audio clips onto the L drive, after you've cropped and sized or
otherwise edited them.
And you may move video clips to the V drive, the live streaming video server.
I'll elaborate on this and explain our publishing system during the early days
of the bureau.
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