CNMS 146 — News Writing and Production
This course is designed to give students a basic understanding of online journalism with a focus on writing techniques and social media marketing. Students will create content (writing articles, photojournalism, poetry, calendar events), edit content, solicit for content from SMCC students outside of class, and post content online to the student publication, “The SMCC Beacon.” Students will learn to maintain a social media presence for the publication on Twitter, Instagram and FaceBook. Students wil l be encouraged to submit two news articles to local community newspapers. Participating video/audio students may also produce a video and audio content of their news with the number and frequency of broadcasts/podcasts to be determined during the semester, and dependent upon the number of students in the course. Students will develop and fine tune writing abilities, editing skills, image manipulation and graphic design skills. Prerequisite(s): none Corequisite(s): none