Week 4 - News Story
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The impact of digital media on news coverage and delivery is undeniable. Many of us have our news delivered directly to us via our laptops or smartphones. The greatest draw of digital media is getting everything in one place with the ability to be selective about what you get and when you get it. Digital media is what makes convergence a reality.
For this assignment, you will write a story for a digital media platform tailored to your local community. You will also create two social media feeds for Facebook and Twitter that brings attention to the story that is on the digital media platform. The length of the actual story for the platform must be at least 350 words for each story.
Topic and Sources of Information:
The issue that you choose to write about must be current and have some relevance for your local community, city, and/or state. You may derive the information for this story from
print or broadcast media only
. You will need to access several print publications and broadcast new programs-- including radio and television-- and take notes of the facts of the story.
For this assignment you must:
Adhere to the
Digital News Publications Template
Adhere to AP style
Create an engaging headline for the story and for the social media posts
Write the story according to the Inverted Pyramid
Summarize facts and/or statistics that are relevant to the story
Develop the story for the local audience
Compare two opposing opinions about the topic
Provide proper attribution for all sources of information included (facts, statistics, images/video, and opinions).
Incorporate visual elements to enhance the story and the social media posts
A list of each of the sources must be included using the
Media News Source Template
.
Saving Your Work:
To maintain the formatting of your work, you are strongly encouraged to save your assignment as a PDF file. View
Saving a Word Document as a PDF
for steps on how to do this.
Check it!
Your print news stories must be submitted through Grammarly and Turnitin prior to submission.
Carefully review the
Grading Rubric
for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
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1. Week 4 - News Story
“Click Here”
The impact of digital media on news coverage and delivery is
undeniable. Many of us have our news delivered directly to us
via our laptops or smartphones. The greatest draw of digital
media is getting everything in one place with the ability to be
selective about what you get and when you get it. Digital media
is what makes convergence a reality.
For this assignment, you will write a story for a digital media
platform tailored to your local community. You will also create
two social media feeds for Facebook and Twitter that brings
attention to the story that is on the digital media platform. The
length of the actual story for the platform must be at least 350
words for each story.
Topic and Sources of Information:
The issue that you choose to write about must be current and
have some relevance for your local community, city, and/or
state. You may derive the information for this story from
print or broadcast media only
. You will need to access several print publications and
broadcast new programs-- including radio and television-- and
take notes of the facts of the story.
For this assignment you must:
Adhere to the
Digital News Publications Template
Adhere to AP style
Create an engaging headline for the story and for the social
media posts
Write the story according to the Inverted Pyramid
Summarize facts and/or statistics that are relevant to the story
Develop the story for the local audience
Compare two opposing opinions about the topic
Provide proper attribution for all sources of information
included (facts, statistics, images/video, and opinions).
Incorporate visual elements to enhance the story and the social
2. media posts
A list of each of the sources must be included using the
Media News Source Template
.
Saving Your Work:
To maintain the formatting of your work, you are strongly
encouraged to save your assignment as a PDF file. View
Saving a Word Document as a PDF
for steps on how to do this.
Check it!
Your print news stories must be submitted through Grammarly
and Turnitin prior to submission.
Carefully review the
Grading Rubric
for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
