Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
You have a collection of soft and hard news stories to read over the break. After reading the stories, I want you to consider: 1. What are both the limitiations and advantages of the hard and soft news writing styles? 2. How might the medium you are using effect whether you use the soft or hard [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
I have changed the submission date for the first assessment. This allows those students who wish to write their piece as a soft news story to have the advantage of the lecture and class exercise on soft news. The new assessment submission date is Friday April 16th. You can submit your stories to my pigeonhole [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
This week we are focussing on your news writing skills in preparation for your first assignment. Readings will be back next week! Tonight you will be given a press release– you need to write a five-six paragraph news story from the information given. You need to figure out what the news is–what is most impactful [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
As promised, the name of the Windows database-making program is called ACCESS…with apologies to the person in class who named it correctly. You can strat a contact list on this program quite effectively. The other piece of information that I promised was a confirmation of the time-limit on defamationa action. There was a change made [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The exercise for this week is to come up with three possible story ideas for your assessment. You will present those stories to class next week. Let us know where the story ideas came from and two potential interviewees. Have fun with this! Search widely and think about ideas that will actually interest you!
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Hopefully you all have your blogs up and running by now. This week we are going to look at two pieces of investigative journalism. The first piece is by an American freelance feature write named Paige Williams. Her story sought to use statistical information to paint a picture of poverty in Georgia, USA. The second [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Just a reminder that class will run as usual on Monday 8th March (Labour Day). See you at 5,30pm in BA202!
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
As promised, I thought I would blog some of my initial thoughts on Pomo Oz. I’m hoping that we can continue a fruitful debate in class on Monday!This is quite a new reading (The book was published in 2010) and I have not set it before. So my thoughts on this chapter are as new [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
As you know, you will need a blog to be able to particpate in this class. Go to wordpress.com and have a play with the site. Register for a free blog and then let me know what your blog address is so that we can add you to the blog roll! That way you will [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
You might be feeling overwhelmed by some of the concepts that Niall Lucy introduces in the Pomo Oz Reading. I have posted some video and articles on Derrida and deconstruction to help provide some extra context. Hope it helps!
