The Journalism Portfolio
PHILOSOPHY
The Journalism Portfolio should be a public showcase of the journalist’s work. It will demonstrate the journalist’s editorial judgment in arranging, revising, and presenting their own work. Most important, the portfolio will exhibit pieces that exemplify the multifaceted reflection that go into preparing, workshopping, copyediting, and finalizing journalistic writing. The portfolio will ultimately serve multiple purposes: to document progress while actively charting the path of one’s academic, career, and creative development.
Download specifications for the English 151 Portfolio or the English 153 Portfolio.
News Writing Criteria
News Reporting & Writing works with the following criteria to guide assessment, evaluation, improvement, and grading of the basic journalistic news pieces we write in the class.
● NEWS VALUE
● FORM
● REPORTING
● WRITING QUALITY
● CLEAN COPY
Basic News Writing Tips
Using these tips, develop your reporting plan into a lede and then a full story.
Reporting Plan & Checklist
Download a Reporting Plan & Checklist document to chart and piece together your ideas for a news story.
On Wikipedia
Here are just a few more reasons to go beyond the popular reference site and instead do some database research...
...from beloved "fake" TV pundit Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report via YouTube...
English 151: Media Journal Part One
News Reporting & Writing Students: Post your first Media Journal per "On-line Writing" syllabus instructions. See also a description of the Media Journal assignment on the syllabus.
DUE for posting by class time, WEEK FOUR, Day One (9/15) ...
What can you do with writing?
Today's handout tries to define journalism as a distinct kind of writing, while dealing also with the challenge of what you can do with writing as a profession.
SYLLABUS: ENGLISH 151-C (News)
Welcome to News Reporting & Writing for FALL 2008!
Download the English 151-C Syllabus.