Nov 07, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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COMM 478 - Digital Journalism Credits: 3


This course is a senior-level experiential class for students in the Journalism concentration and includes developmental projects as well as a final professional project. It focuses on the changing nature of technology and its use in news organizations to gather, analyze, synthesize and disseminate information. Focuses on developing, researching, and writing specialized stories for newspaper, magazine, television and radio websites and social media. Students learn to approach stories as packages, developing story ideas that can be presented in written, audio, and video formats. Focuses on writing and editing, written narrative, blogging, podcasting, live tweeting, and capturing and editing digital audio and digital video segments, developing accompanying links, and designing a story package to be presented in print, on a website and on social media. 

Prerequisite(s): COMM 285 , COMM 293   and COMM 375 . Seniors only; graduate students with approval of instructor
Graduate Credit: This course is available for graduate credit.



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