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C&J 475, previously known as "Advanced Reporting," is the capstone course in the print journalism concentration. It is intended to give you online experience and skills that you can use in a 21st century in which every news media organization is an active Web publisher. Coursework will be part of the Web site you will create in this class.

This year's course is being team-taught by the two instructors in two sections simultaneously. Some classes will be held in joint sessions of the two sections or with the advanced broadcast class. Both sections will have opportunities to work in both the Mac and Windows labs.

UNM is a pioneer in teaching a multimedia journalism course in which students produce a news Web site. As a student in C&J 475, you will be helping to produce a version similar to the C&J Online News, the news site and online 'zine of UNM's journalism program.

In spring 2008, the class news site is The Cranberry.

The class will be conducted as if we are a professional online news team whose charge is to produce a dynamic, readable and credible Web news site. This course will help you develop the skills and new mind frame needed to succeed in today's rapidly evolving media environment. The focus is on the understanding essential to producing news information in all forms.

You need the AP Stylebook. There is no textbook, but there are numerous links to required online readings on the schedule page. Each week's online readings must be completed before the start of the subsequent class.

By the second week of class, each student must own a USB flash drive and have it in his or her possession at every class for downloading and saving files. Every student will be expected to monitor television news coverage and read the Daily Lobo and either the Albuquerque Journal or The Albuquerque Tribune.

(For archival purposes, the news site for the spring 2007 class was The Howler.)

CREDITS: Much of this course owes its appearance, wording, links and organization from multimedia journalism courses taught by Dr. Jay Rochlin of the University of Arizona, Carol Schwalbe of Arizona State University, Dr. Steve Klein of George Mason University, and Dr. Jane Singer of the University of Iowa. Also, QBullets are used to indicate the function of hypertext links. QBullets appear courtesy of Matterform Media. QBullets are freeware. ©1996 by Matterform Media. This Web site's "one-man-band" journalist illustration is adapted from and used with the permission of Quill magazine.