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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 include creating a news Web site for stories written in C&J 475.

This semester's course is being team-taught by two instructors. Some classes will be divided into two sections. All students will have opportunities to work in both the Mac and Windows labs.

UNM is a third-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 UNM's journalism program.

For spring 2009, the class news site will be The Grindstone.

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. 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 the Albuquerque Journal and their Web sites.

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