COMM 478 - Digital Journalism

Institution:
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
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Description:
This course is a senior-level experiential class for students in the Journalism concentration, and includes developmental projects as well as a final professional project. It focuses on the changing nature of technology and its use in news organizations to gather, analyze, synthesize and disseminate information. Focuses on developing, researching, and writing specialized stories for newspaper, magazine, television and radio websites and social media. Students learn to approach stories as packages, developing story ideas that can be presented in written, audio, and video formats. Focuses on writing and editing, written narrative, blogging, podcasting, live tweeting, and capturing and editing digital audio and digital video segments, developing accompanying links, and designing a story package to be presented in print, on a website and on social media. Requires senior standing, graduate students with permission of instructor. This class is available for graduate credit.
Credits:
3.00
Credit Hours:
Prerequisites:
COMM 285, COMM 293, and COMM 375
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Instructional Type:
Lecture
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Phone Number:
(717) 477-7447
Regional Accreditation:
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
Calendar System:
Semester

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