Right off the bat . . .
. . . things you might want from JPROF:
Rules for using commas (classroom handout)
The ICONN Journalism series now on the iPad
.The Intercollegiate Online News Network (ICONN), in association with First Inning Press, is producing a series of journalism-related texts for the iPad. Currently, there are four titles in this series: Introduction to Journalism; Reporting: An Introduction; Photojournalism: Telling Stories with Pictures and Words; and The First Amendment.
ICONN is an association of campus news websites that was formed at the University of Tennessee in 2008. Academic programs, campus news websites, professional organizations and individuals are welcome to join ICONN at no cost. If you are wanting to start a news website for your course or program, ICONN can help you do that with its JeffersonNet content management system. More information can be found at the ICONN website.
Each text was built especially for the iPad with the iBook Author software and is suitable for high school or college journalism classes. Each has a variety of multimedia elements including video, audio, photo galleries and other interactive resources.
The introductory, reporting and photojournalism texts contain an abridged version of the First Amendment text. (A stand-alone free version of the First Amendment book is also available.)
Each text is $1.99 on the iBookstore.
Here are links to the texts:
Photojournalism: Telling Stories with Pictures and Words
More texts are planned for this series.
The development of newswriting
Dr. Ed Caudill of the University of Tennessee gives a short preview of his lecture on the development of our current newswriting style. The lecture part of the JEM 230 Media Reporting) course. Caudill uses the news coverage of the wars in which America has fought as examples of the changing style of newswriting that journalists have used. Audience and technology, he says, have been the driving forces in the development of these styles of writing. An extended version of this preview can be found on Vimeo.
Recently posted: Seven steps to the audio slideshow
Students in JEM 230 (University of Tennessee) have to put together an audio as their first assignment for the fall semester. Here are the seven steps they need to complete to handle this assignment successfully.
And here are some additional resources:
- Audio slideshows (a short article)
- Practice assignment for audio slideshows (complete with pictures and information for a script.
Crowdsourcing during the Civil War. In the video below, George Rable, University of Alabama history professor, discusses the sources of information that newspaper editors during the Civil War used for their reports about battles and the war in general. One important source was letters from soldiers -- a form of what we could call today "crowdsourcing." This means using the accounts of participants at an event to construct an account of that event.
Principles and guidelines for writing for the web. When talking with writing section instructors about what we should teach out students about writing, I lay out four principles:
- The writing should be tighter - more concise.
- Writers should use words and phrases that are information rich.
- Writing should be shorter but with no loss of information.
- Writers must learn to write quickly and with confidence.
You can read my discussion notes on the JPROF blog.
BOOKS for the journalist
and the journalism educator
Writing for the Mass Media (8th edition)
Journalism: Who, What, When, Where, Why and HowJames Glen Stovall. Allyn and Bacon, 2009
For more than 20 years, Writing for the Mass Media has been introducing students to all of the basic forms of media writing: the inverted pyramid for print, the drama unity form for broadcasting, summaries and other specialized writing for the web, copy platforms and storyboards for advertising. and news releases and other forms of witing for public relations. Used by more than 450 colleges and universities, this book gives students an excellent introduction to media writing and teachers the convenience of a clear, concise text with ample writing exercises at the end of each chapter.
Go to the book's web site here at JPROF.
Order the book from Amazon, Barnes and Noble.
James Glen Stovall. Allyn and Bacon, 2005
This introductory text is covered with lively writing, up-to-date examples and an inviting layout that will have students reading, wondering, asking and practicing. Just published by Allyn and Bacon, this text is a must for any journalist's shelf and any journalism teacher's classroom.
Learn more.
Go to the book's web site at Allyn and Bacon.
Order the book from Amazon, Barnes and Noble.
Nice review of JN5W (and full disclosure). My good friend and colleague (that's the full disclosure part) Herb Thompson has written a very kind and complimentary review of the book for SecondaryEnglish.com. Along with it is an interview that Herb conducted with me.
James Glen Stovall. Allyn and Bacon, 2004
How will the web change journalism? And what should you be teaching your students about the future of journalism in this digital age? This book explores those questions and offers some practical answers based on years of experience in the field of journalism. The web bring to journalism qualities present in no other medium: the combination of capacity, immediacy, flexibility, permanence and interactivity. These qualities will have a profound effect on the journalism of the future. Give your students some real insight as to the future of journalism and the way it will be practiced.
Learn more.
Order the book from Amazon (where it is incorrectedly titled Journalism on the Web), Barnes and Noble.
The Complete Editor (2nd edition)
James Glen Stovall and Edward Mullins. Allyn and Bacon, 2006
This basic editing text began its life in the early 1980s as Online Editing, the first text to teach editing from the persepctive of the computer technology that was taking over the field of journalism. Today it has been completely revised to cover not just the developing technology but also to deal with what it means to be an editor in a digital world. The book contains tightly written chapters and exercise material designed to get students into the mindset of being editors.
Learn more on this web site; go to the book's page on the Allyn and Bacon web site.
Order the current edition from Barnes and Noble.
Infographics: A Journalist's Guide
James Glen Stovall. Allyn and Bacon, 1997
This practical guide teaches students what infographics are and how they can be created. It is the only text that delves specifically into the forms of graphics and the kind of information that is appropriate for those forms. The book also discusses the modern development of graphics and the issues that surround them, such as the difficulty in creating them and the ways for journalists to avoid errors in graphics.
Learn more.
Order the book from Amazon, Barnes and Noble.
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