JOU4201: News Center Practicum, Fall 2016

JOU 4201: News Center Practicum

Fall 2016

Innovation News Center Labs: Monday-Friday, periods 2-6 (9:30-2:45—day determinate upon course section)

Lecture: Periodic Mondays, period 9 (4:05-4:55), FLG 0260

Instructor: Gary Green, Deputy News Editor and Digital Director, Innovation News Center | ggreen@jou.ufl.edu |@garywgreen | 352-294-1502

Lab Assistants:

Michael Stone : michaelstone428@gmail.com

Meghan Mangrum : mmangrum@ufl.edu

Sofiya Tarasevich: starasevich@ufl.edu

Course Description This is a newsroom experience course that produces and edits journalism in the Innovation News Center (Weimer 2300). Half the semester is spent on developing the skills toward the editing role of a Web producer. The other half is spent producing content tailored to our media outlets’ audiences. Many days you will be working in both capacities throughout your shifts.

The INC is a professional newsroom for WUFT and WRUF/ESPN stations and websites. These are not campus stations. They are professional news outlets serving adults in North Central Florida. So for this class, think and act like a professional journalist. In other words, treat this like a job or internship. If you do, you will get better clips, you will better prepare yourself for a job and you’ll get a better grade. It also prepares you for working in a professional workplace: office politics, communicating your ideas, garnering attention and interacting with management. Even if a journalism industry job is not your destination, you’ll gain valuable work experience to apply toward your chosen profession.

Because this is a real newsroom, your workday will vary. On any given day you could be editing a story for wuft.org, running out the door to chase breaking news, recording it for radio (WUFT-FM/NPR) or explaining it on live TV (WUFT-TV/PBS).

Continue reading here: JOU4201FALL2016Syllabus.pdf