So, here we are.
Get your own blog set up, check in here for the rest of the class's sites, update your blogroll. Put up a picture, set up an RSS feed and put up any other bells and whistles you care to. Just make sure to keep it professional! Your blog will be your living portfolio--something you'll be able to use in job interviews. So, don't put up images, content or use language that might work against you.
Here's your assignment for Tuesday:
Read:
AP stylebook, A through C
Rich, chapters 7 (leads and nut graphs) and 8 (story structure)
Do:
Watch the first presidential debate Friday night at 9 p.m. and think about how you would lede a story about it. Write a one-sentence lede and post it on your blog by midnight. (If the debate doesn't happen, then you're off the hook for this one.) Here's some commentary from WaPo about it, fyi.
Object Description: write a physical description of an object (sitting in front of you) without using adjectives or adverbs. 200 words. Post it on your blog. Take a look at your colleagues' work before class Tuesday, and bring to class a hard copy of your own piece, written in copy format.
3 comments:
Hey all,
I thought I would introduce myself as I maybe stalking you all on your blogs.
I am a former student of Marin's and now a reporter at the Desert Dispatch, a small paper in Barstow, Calif. I've been out here for two years and in that time have covered virtually every beat known to journalism (except the Black, middle class beat, an actual beat at the Washington Post).
I'll be checking in the blog periodically, leaving comments on some of your assignments and completing some of them myself.
Also, check out my blog:
http://specialaups.blogspot.com/
for more on writing for a small paper.
If you have any questions about the biz, feel free to leave me a comment on the blog or send an e-mail to aaron.aupperlee@gmail.com.
Best of luck,
Aaron Aupperlee
How many of you have a Facebook page?
Have you considered friending your sources on Facebook? Maybe you already have? If you write for The Index and cover students, chances are you are Facebook friends with some of your sources?
Apparently, adult-type journalists have to worry about this too.
To friend or not to friend.
It's an article from www.ajr.org, the American Journalism Review.
I sort of kind of wish the Sec. of State in Cali would want to be my friend on Facebook.
I blogged about it too! www.specialaups.blogspot.com
later...
i find it really funny that this was the only post marin made all quarter, lol.
not to be critical or anything, just noticing that the blogs got lost in the whole learning shuffle. what a great shuffle it was!
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