COM 464 - Nonfiction Multimedia Storytelling

Description:
Students in the digital journalism writing and reporting specialization will hone their multimedia storytelling skills by producing a multi-platform package using information gathered through the COM 466 Investigative Journalism course.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: COM 226 and COM 303 and COM 308 and COM 321 and admission to the digital journalism major with writing and reporting specialization. Co-requisites: COM 466 and COM 466LAB.

Credits: (5)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Compare the effectiveness of different storytelling techniques that can be used to report newsworthy information depending on the characteristics of the sources providing that information.
Choose the most appropriate storytelling technique, and the most suited media, to report the information gathered from different sources.
Manage rapport with human sources to gather audio and visual material necessary to tell a newsworthy story across media platforms.
Assemble in-depth story packages that include textual, audio, and visual content summarizing and illustrating effectively the information gathered from different documentary and human sources.
Demonstrate understanding of legal and ethical issues connected with the use of different media to report information.
Criticize in-depth multimedia news story packages.

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
1/18/18