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C&J 372: Copy Editing
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Welcome!
C&J 372, 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 include creating a news Web site for stories written in C&J 475.

All students will have opportunities to work in both the Mac and Windows labs.

UNM is a fourth-year 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 C&J's journalism program.

"Not long ago, the typical beginning reporter faced a simple choice: print or broadcast. Those options remain. But today's growth area is in multimedia jobs that blur and often obliterate the old boundaries."

—Carl Sessions Stepp
American Journalism Review

For spring 2010, the class news site is The Mojo, and the site will be developed in late March.

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 course focus is on the understanding essential to producing news information in print, video, photography and online.

You need the AP Stylebook and a USB drive for file storage and transfer. 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 third 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 the Albuquerque Journal and their Web sites.

(For archival purposes, the news site for the spring 2007 class was The Howler; the spring 2008 class site was The Cranberry; and the spring 2009 class site was The Grindstone.)

Course links
Your instructor
   Dennis Herrick
Syllabus
  475 Home Page
  Course Description
  Course Details
  Course Schedule
  Course Grading
  Final Project
Class blogs
  372 COURSE BLOG
  Gary Alderete
  Isaac Avilucea
  Jazmen Bradford
  
Zackeriah Carpenter
  Sean Gardner
  Matt Kappus
  Debra Knoll
  Rachel Prewitt
  Abigail Ramirez
  Alex Ramirez
  Amanda Skotchdople
  Ryan Tomari
  Mario Trujillo
  Rikki-Lee Ulibarri
  Brandon Wiltgen
  Sarah Wintermute
Class Documents
  First Day Survey
  Upload Résumé
  Format instructions for photos and stories
  Create a slide show
  Upload to Web site
General Links
  NewsU.org
  Poynter Online
  Online News Assoc.
  NYT Online Research
  AJR
  CJR
  Cyberjournalist
  PRESSthink

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.