Course overview
This course is designed to help students develop the knowledge and skills to tell multimedia stories. It combines principles of multimedia storytelling with hands-on journalistic methods in information gathering, fact-checking, and ethical decision making. This course will first explore essential shifts and changes in media technology, media organizations, and online journalism ethics. It will then focus on the practice and principles of multimedia storytelling, including writing and editing for digital media, editing images, and creating factual audio and video content.
This class will help you develop proper techniques to develop meaningful stories about issues that interest you. This class will also help you apply the media literacy and critical thinking skills you have learned in your other classes to create responsible digital content. During the semester, you will develop several multimedia projects such as blogs, explainer videos, multimedia websites, etc.
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Apply the principles of multimedia journalism to a variety of media
- Effectively use of various media technologies for journalism through developing multimedia journalism projects
- Identify and explain ethical and legal considerations in the practice of multimedia journalism;
- Demonstrate elements of professional practice in journalism such as communicating accurately and meeting deadlines;
- Plan, research, and create multimedia stories using the media technologies appropriate for the audience and message