| The Daily Routine You are pioneers in this medium. As such, you'll have to learn to
be flexible as we experiment with
various ways of running the shop. It'll give you great practice for working in a Web
newsroom!
Here are some givens: Every week we'll be posting original work from our staff
and packaging stories from the other three news bureaus run by the college.
You'll be given responsibility on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays for updating the home page and will be asked
to periodically help update other areas or sections of the site. Right now, the
main sections include:
You'll be juggling updating work on these sections with additional reporting,
packaging, multimedia, research and photo assignments.
On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, we'll talk early in the day about story, link, photo
and graphic choices for the home page and other sections.
I'll be helping you with basic PhotoShop -- sizing and cropping pictures -- and with
Web-editing tools.
I'll also
occasionally bring in
professional or academic guests to give us additional tips and advice. In the
past, we've had guests provide additional guidance on audio, video, photos, graphics and
interactive elements.
Our first two guests are scheduled: Associate Professor Mike Williams, a former photojournalist, will give a digital photography tutorial on Friday, Feb. 8; Lecturer Sue Kopen Katcef, who has worked professionally in radio and TV, will lead a session on collecting and editing digital audio on Friday, Feb. 15.
Most importantly, I'll be helping you to make sense of your stories -- the reporting,
writing, editing and presentation of them. This is, after all, a newsmagazine, and your
primary jobs here are as storytellers.
We'll want to present each story in the best format for it.
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 Internet. You will normally work on stories in the
H drive, and copy them to X when you're ready for editing.
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 also 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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