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Course: |
JOU 106
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Title: | Media News and Reporting |
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Long Title: | Media News and Reporting |
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Course Description: | Introduces newswriting, reporting and interviewing with an emphasis on clarity, accuracy, completeness, timeliness and fairness. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Status Notes: | This course is active and is offered by most community |
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| S: colleges. This course is accepted by most 4-year |
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| S: universities, but is not part of the Common Core. |
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| S: Colorado Mountain College offers this course. |
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Origin Notes: | CCD |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
1. Describe news judgment and its impact on the audience
2. Describe effective leads
3. Prepare and conduct interviews
4. Create effective writing techniques for their audience
5. Practice quoting and using sources appropriately
6. Demonstrate effective and efficient methods of information retrieval
7. Demonstrate the importance of a source
8. Demonstrate the inverted pyramid and alternatives to the inverted pyramid
9. Demonstrate how to cover sports, obituaries, accidents, disasters, speeches, news conferences and meetings
10. Demonstrate the structure of second-cycle stories, follows and updates
11. Use news releases for article ideas
12. Demonstrate FACT, how being fair, accurate and complete can lead to truth
13. Demonstrate the need to make the article useful and relevant to the audience
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Introduction to the News
II. Basic Skills for newswriting and reporting
III. Basic article types
IV. Beat reporting
V. Advanced techniques
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Arapahoe Community College |
ACC |
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Community College of Denver |
CCD |
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Front Range Community College |
FRCC |
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Pueblo Community College |
PCC |
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Pikes Peak State College |
PPCC |
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Red Rocks Community College |
RRCC |
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