Journalism 2

Hey! Don’t forget there’s a new blog on j2blobg.com. It’s due Friday.

Today, we learned a ton of stuff.

Monday’s publishing group published their stories today on Hoofprint.net. There are several tutorials on this on the Tip Page under the Hoofprint.net header.

The basic tutorial is below. Again, there are MANY MORE TUTORIALS on everything you need on the Tips Page.

So, the Monday group was dismissed to update Hoofprint.net before lunch. They published in the editor’s office and I helped them. The other publishing groups had work time to prepare thigns and plan for publishing.

After lunch, we packed in a bunch of stuff. I’m not sure how far we’ll get.

Portfolio Pieces and Reflections

1. Export your spread as a PDF and as a jpeg.
2. Make a new post in your blog, upload the jpeg to your blog, add it as a thumbnail, and write a brief reflection.
3. Catagorize the post as “Portfolio”.
4. The PDF is a much higher-quality version of your file, and it should be something that you save.

Reflections:

Here’s a sample portfolio piece and reflection.

• A reflection should accompany each entry into your portfolio.
• Write about what you did, the things you learned along the way, what you think you did well and what areas you still have for improvement.
• What would you do differently if you could do it again?
• How can it be applied to future projects and layouts?

You should all have your image uploaded today and your Reflection is due on Wednesday. You’ll have class time to work on this.

If we had time left over, we jigsawed several articles about the twilight of tradionally-presented print news – of news and most people know it. You worked in your publishing groups for this.

Here are the articles we read. If you were gone today, I’d HIGHLY suggest reading each short article.

1. More Americans turning to Web for news – Reuters

2. Detroit Papers Slash Home Delivers – clickondetroit.com

3. Who will mourn local newspapers? – Financial Times editorial by John Gapper

4. Christian Science Paper to End Daily Print Edition – Stephanie Clifford – The New York Times

5. NY Times, other newspapers continue to struggle – USA Today

We won’t get time to make sense of all of these articles today, but it’s importnat to take notes on the presentations of each group.

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