Writing for Interactive Media

Journalism 122/Communication Studies 122

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Week #4

Homework due (Sept. 28)

Blog reports
Handout
Editor & Publisher

READ: Writing for New Media, Chapter 1. What is Interactive Media.

SKIM: Chapter 3, Intrinsic Interactivity.

READ: Chapter 4 (Linear Writing vs. Interactive Writing) and Chapter 5 (Role of the Writer in Interactive Media).

READ: Chapter 14 (Interactive Sentences: Designing the Perfect Data Chunk)

WRITE: Take one story from the State Hornet (www.statehornet.com) and write a one page analysis (with map, if appropriate) to show how the story could have been developed more fully for online. Print out the original story and attach it to your analysis

Voting story.

Northwestern class examples

Groups for Projects
:
Team 1: Housing
Chad Larson - Team Leader
J.D. Corr
Veronica Gonzalez
Cherokee Huffman
Jerome Soriano

Team 2 Health
Jason Wollman - Team Leader
Linda Le
Yamilet Gaitan
Lundy Lim

Team 3 Employment
Carlos Caraphinha
Bryan Louie - Team Leader
Gilda Yaghoubian
Angele Sanchez

Team 4 Entertainment
James Pramina - Team Leader
Alan Campfield
Aaron Snook
Maria Elena Vasquez
Emily Carter

Introduce yourselves. Exchange skills, major, software ability.

Pick Team Leader/Producer

NEXT WEEK: Skim Chapter 13: The Writer's Grammar.