CUNY Interactive Journalism

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Collaboration

Collaboration

Collaboration

Mobilizing the public

Any and all media

Live

Data as news

New job descriptions• Reporter

• Producer

• Editor

• Curator

• Organizer

• Educator

• Programmer/Developer

• Inventor

What we teach: levels

• Knowledge of tools & skills and their uses

• Ability to spec

• Ability to adapt

• Ability to create

What we teach: tools

• Web structure - familiarity

• Blogging - adapt

• Web video, audio (Final Cut) - create

• Photos - subset

• Slideshows - create

• Equipment: audio, video, photo, mobile - use

• Flash - adapt

• Web pages - spec

• Data bases - familiarity

• Google tools, Flickr, YouTube, et al - adapt

• Feeds (RSS, Twitter) - use

• Social - use

• Mobile - use

• Spreadsheets - workshops

What we teach: skills

• Cross-media reporting

• New-media packaging

• New media writing

• Interaction with the public

• Collaboration with journalists & the public

• Independent work

• Ability to work with technologists

• Blogging & live blogging

• Search & curation

• Mobile/live reporting

• Work flow

• File structure/web architecture

• Ethics of online

• New business models of journalism

• Innovation

What we teach: courses

• Fundamentals of Interactive Journalism:Overview for everyone - state of journalism to making all media

• Interactive Journalism II:Making online news

• Interactive Journalism III:A capstone project

• Entrepreneurial Journalism

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