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KMD Digital Journalism 2010
Course Material
- Japan Times - looking forward: Politics, the Internet and Japan
- Office Hours
- Weekly course seminars
- Recommended Reading
- Week 2 - June 14 - 20 - What is online journalism?
- Week 7 - July 26 - August 1 - Presentation of Projects
- Week 4 - June 28 - July 4 The business of online journalism
- Week 6 - July 12 - 18
- Week 3 - June 21 - 27 -Using the tools / World Cup
- Week 5 - July 5 - 12 - Publishing and Promoting
- Useful Links
- Good to Know (AKA What you might learn)
- Week 1 - June 7 - 13 2010 Orientation and Introduction
- Assessment and Grading
- Facilitator/Instructors
- Projects
- Logistics
- Goals
Week 2 - June 14 - 20 - What is online journalism?
During this week and in the second assignment we're going to explore what online journalism is. This assignment will be broken into three parts. First, we'll look at some theory. Then we'll look at an actual news story and discuss how it could have been enhanced. Finally, you will have to relate these ideas to your own project ideas.
1. Theory
Please read the guides at The Online Journalism Review (http://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/) and the this article on how journalism has changed in the last ten years : http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/03/06/ten-ways-journalism-has-changed-in-the-last-ten-years-bloggers-cut
Then look at the News Diamond and "Digital News Lifecycle" at the Online Journalism blog (http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/06/02/the-news-diamond-reimagined-as-the-digital-news-lifecycle/). It is one attempt at trying to map out a process on how news is done online.
The last reading for this week is a discussion on designing a news site from scratch : http://strange.corante.com/2008/08/22/news-site-from-scratch-what-are-the-most-important-things-to-include
2. Application
This weeks assignment will look at how we present news online. Next week we'll look at online news gathering.
Yesterday saw an attack on a NATO convoy in Pakistan : http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/06/20106915555658186.html
At our news meeting one our journalists pitched a story looking at the NATO supply lines in order to provide more context to this news event. This story was subsequently written by one of my journalists in Doha, Qatar (as opposed to being out in the field): http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/06/20106917552890245.html
Based on the readings (and your own experience and ideas), I'd like you to discuss the how these stories took advantage of the online medium and more importantly, what additional elements would you have added to these stories. Are there more interesting ways in which this could have been covered using multimedia tools or interactive elements?
--> Please use the discussion forum thread http://p2pu.org/node/3838/forums/4151 to post your thoughts.
3. Projects
After having done the readings and discussed how stories can be presented online, we need to tie these back to your own project ideas and proposals. While the scope of your projects are not constrained to hard news, the principles of online journalism from the readings should lay the basis of problems you're interested in tackling. Let's start working through the ideas.
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I am just pasting the outline
I am just pasting the outline for this week's live seminar from Joi's email - for reference:
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I think there have been some workflow issues setting up the blogs and I'd like to get feedback on how people feel about the communication modes and collaboration tools. I realize it's a bit bumpy at the beginning, but we should iterate and try to get into our stride this week. We can begin by discussion any issues people have and solve any of the easy ones immediately or take them offline to solve.
The seminar room session will begin with attendance and signup confirmations for the KMD students. All students, PLEASE SIGN YOUR MODEL RELEASE FORMS that you've received from me via Echosign. Also, please tag your names on your photos here: http://picasaweb.google.com/joiito/KMDP2PUDJ#
We will then go through the currently proposed projects, solicit feedback, discuss and ask people to either formally lead or join a project. Project leaders or groups are welcome to make short presentations about their projects. Try to get project ideas in today. The project thread on the forums is here: http://p2pu.org/node/3838/forums/4123
We will recap last weeks assignment (Discussion on "Covering the Cops" by Calvin Trillin) and discussion on the forums here: http://p2pu.org/node/3838/forums/4048
I will give a quick overview of this coming week's topic "Week 2 - What is online journalism?" We may have guest speakers. We will then go over the assignment for the week which is posted here: http://p2pu.org/node/3838/document/3848 which should be discussed here: http://p2pu.org/node/3838/forums/4151
Hopefully we'll have some time to discuss the topic during the class and people are encouraged to start the readings now, but we'll have the week to continue the discussion. We can spread the discussion out across Twitter and personal blogs, but please try to post links to interesting posts on the forums as well.
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High quality video of
High quality video of Seminar: http://blip.tv/file/3805141