Michigan State University - Capstone: Create your own professional journalistic portfolio
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Capstone: Create your own professional journalistic portfolio at Coursera Overview
Duration | 10 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Capstone: Create your own professional journalistic portfolio at Coursera Highlights
- This Course Plus the Full Specialization.
- Shareable Certificates.
- Graded Programming Assignments.
Capstone: Create your own professional journalistic portfolio at Coursera Course details
- This is it! It is time for YOU to be the journalist, and practice and display the skills you have learned through this Specialization journey. You will create your own professional journalistic portfolio, culminating in the creation of your own news report from start to finish. You will go through all the steps and skills used by professional journalists: conceptualizing a news report idea, reporting, interviewing, researching, and then compiling the information for an audience. Your learner community, along with the Michigan State Journalism team, will be with you every step of the way. Having a professional portfolio will help you market yourself as a journalist, showing off your work product, as well as practice and hone your journalistic skill set. You will receive an exclusive premium "Journalism" badge for social media, to display your Capstone completion.
Capstone: Create your own professional journalistic portfolio at Coursera Curriculum
Capstone news report portfolio: the start!
Pick a topic for your Capstone news report
Formats for news reports
Setting up your Capstone portfolio
The Capstone news report structure
News report refresher and concepts
Capstone news report portfolio: News gathering
Gathering information for your Capstone news report
What are sources?
Rules for dealing with sources
Capstone news report portfolio: Interviewing sources
Interviews
Interview preparation
Executing interviews
Capstone news report portfolio: Assembling your news
Putting together your newsgathering
Using quotes effectively
Multimedia and you
Developing leads
Tips for sorting newsgathering
News report structure checklist
Capstone news report portfolio: The final product!
It's time to do it!
The takeaway
Examples of strong news reports
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