COMM 3308 - Broadcast and Convergent Journalism

Prerequisites: COMM 1102 and either COMM 1114 or consent of the instructor. Intensive practice in news gathering, interviewing, researching, editing, writing, and use of news services and sources in a media-convergent world to produce broadcast and web-ready stories. Discussion and application of traditional versus alternative journalism such as backpack, hyper-local, and web-based. Application of ethical journalistic standards in fairness and accuracy. Documentary, special event, and live production elements are examined and created for multiple media formats. 3 credits.