What Do You Need to Know?

Teaching online journalism requires you to be aware of what's going on in the field today. While you might be a regular user of news Web sites, that might not be enough. What's going on behind the scenes at online news operations? How can you bring that into your classroom?

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Reporting

• Gathering and editing audio

• Writing headlines and summaries

• Links and the ethics of linking

• Backpack journalism: What is it? Here are a few good articles to explain:

• What’s in Kevin’s Gearbag?
• Hard-Core Reporting
• Backpack Journalism Is Here to Stay

Editing

• Writing headlines and summaries

• Links and the ethics of linking

• Production

• Fact checking and copy editing

Design and graphics

• HTML and CSS

• Web standards

• Information graphics for online use

• Animation and 3-D

Photojournalism

• Shooting for slideshows

• Gathering and editing audio

• Soundslides If you want to make a slideshow, use this.

• Learning video

Stuff You Will Find Online

Do you know what these are? Do you know how journalists use them in their work?

• Blogs
• Databases
• Flash
• Maps
• Multimedia Journalism Narrative
• Podcasts
• Wikis