Assignment for Wednesday

Assignment for Wednesday: From the syllabus:

Find best examples of multimedia journalism from around the web. Find a single multimedia package on a big issue (or smaller examples on several issues); write a blog post examining what they did with multimedia and why; examine how effective it was. Embed links; add photos to your blog. Try to find something that is doable (or at least elements that are doable) for a beginning multimedia journalist. Could you do anything like this this term? Start thinking about your term project and perhaps muse about that. Include your own observations – it’s a blog… be creative. Write at least 400 words. Have posted to blog by Wednesday. Here’s a link to an article that highlights the top 5 multimedia journalism websites. However, there are many, many others. Feel free to explore.

Today's assignment

Today: Print your blog post assignment that was due today. On your blog, post headlines, blurbs and leads for handout given out in class today. In addition to posting them, print out your headlines, blurbs and leads. Pointers on leads : They are usually written in the past tense and are complete sentences. Lead with the most interesting or important thing or the thing that has the most impact. Leads are usually a single sentence in hard news, but in softer, feature news the lead may be several sentences as it may include description, action, narrative or anecdote.