WEEK 6

Hello editors and freelancers!

PHOTOGRAPHERS:  Be sure to check in with Abraham for your assignments. I will be giving a short photo ethics workshop on Thursday.

EDITORS: We are all still getting organized and finding the best ways to pitch stories for your sections. Please keep in mind that as an editor or beat writer/contributor, your job is to keep a note pad and jot down ideas for your section that think of the student audience first, and then the local community audience. You are also expected to promote your stories once published, and keep track of how those stories are doing each day. Brigette will create a handout for you to use that outlines the steps to promoting stories.

Editors are required to attend Editorial Board Meetings and Production Thursdays. Editors may not leave until they check in with the EIC or with me. These activities are your weekly points.

NOTICE:  The newsroom will be closed on Wednesday, Oct. 30 and Thursday, Oct. 31 (*A group of editors will be attending a conference in Washington DC from Oct. 30-Nov. 3) and classes are cancelled so we will have production on Tuesday, Oct. 29 beginning at 2:30 p.m. Please come prepared to have your section ready for the current week and the week that follows. *If you are unable to attend production on Thursday, you must meet with Natalie to work on an alternate day to prepare your section.  

See you on Thursday.

WEEK 5

This week's workshop will be on headlines and sub-headlines. You will be given a worksheet to complete for points.

After completed, we will break into a general editors meeting regarding restructuring the organization of the newsroom, editor's duties, collaboration, etc. Remember that the class runs until 2:40 p.m and has 3.25 hours by arrangement.

If you are working as a contributor/freelancer, please see me for a contract this week.

*Please note that this is a loosely-structured 2 point course (see syllabus) for editors, senior staff reporters, and freelancers (writers, photographers). Freelance photographers are required to complete photo assignments but are not required to attend lectures that are not related to photography.

See you on Thursday!

WEEK 1

Welcome to JOUR 106, online media lab. If you are a returning staff writer or editor, welcome back. If you are new to our staff, glad to have you on board!

If you are taking this course as an editor, you will be following a weekly editor's schedule which includes pitch meetings, editorial board meetings, and weekly Thursday productions. 

If you are taking this as a two unit lab course, you will have weekly assignments that are coordinated between myself and the editors.

Be sure to check here for weekly updates, readings, assignments, etc.

Here is the syllabus:  

*Assignments adjusted for editors and freelancers. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kbZCF8482tRc9j4-8HaMtMJUkYnk2pqW2fc7kuKOku0/edit?usp=sharing

WEEK 2

Hey everyone!

Welcome back!

If you are one of the editors, you will attend a workshop in the first part of class, and then you will begin production which takes place on Thursdays.

Section editors must complete their sections before leaving the newsroom.

If you are working as a freelancer on our staff (illustration, graphics, animation, photographers) you may attend the workshops which will be posted one week in advance.  If it is a workshop of interest to you, you should attend. If not, you may check in for your assignment in person or via e-mail no later than Thursday at 5 pm.

If you're confused, e-mail me at talbertson@mtsac.edu

See you all on Thursday.