COM 351: Introduction

Textbooks:

• The Digital Journalist’s Handbook by Mark Luckie
• The Associated Press Stylebook

Discussion points:

• Goals of class
• Turning homework into published clips
• Grading, editing
• Use of WordPress
• Importance of original reporting and news content
• Finding the “truth” in age of information overload

Questions:

• Who is your audience? Who are you writing for?
• Toughest thing about writing? What do you think?

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
– Gene Fowler, American journalist and biographer, 1890-1960