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Capstone: Create your own professional journalistic portfolio

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Michigan State University

Capstone: Create your own professional journalistic portfolio

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Curso 5 de 5 em Specialization Become a Journalist: Report the News!

This is it! It is time for YOU to be the journalist, and practice and display the skills you have learned through this Specialization journey. You will create your own professional journalistic portfolio, culminating in the creation of your own news report from start to finish. You will go through all the steps and skills used by professional journalists: conceptualizing a news report idea, reporting, interviewing, researching, and then compiling the information for an audience. Your learner community, along with the Michigan State Journalism team, will be with you every step of the way. Having a professional portfolio will help you market yourself as a journalist, showing off your work product, as well as practice and hone your journalistic skill set. You will receive an exclusive premium "Journalism" badge for social media, to display your Capstone completion.

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Capstone news report portfolio: Interviewing sources

This may be the most challenging step of the process for some Learners! But we know you can do it. Journalists need to be strong interviewers - and listeners - in order to get the information, quotes and understanding needed to compile professional news reports. You will master the interviewing process, by developing your questions, ethically and effectively conducting the interviews, and then reviewing your content for your news report development.

Interview preparation6:57

Executing interviews6:03

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Joanne Gerstner
Sports Journalist in Residence
Michigan State University School of Journalism
Jeremy Steele
Specialist
Michigan State University School of Journalism
David Poulson
Instructor
School of Journalism
Eric Freedman
Instructor
School of Journalism
Joe Grimm
Instructor
School of Journalism
Lucinda D. Davenport
Director & Professor
School of Journalism

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Welcome back, learners.

We're now at a super exciting stage,

and frankly one of my favorite stages in the news gathering process.

And that's interviewing.

You have chosen your topic for your final news report.

You've chosen the form that you're going to execute, either hard news or feature.

You have started the news gathering process and

thinking about what sources you need, how you're going to approach them.

Now you're getting to a critical part of the process,

the stage that we're at right now, which is interviewing.

You need to understand than an interview is at best a conversation,

at worst an interrogation, but somewhere in the middle sometimes.

You need to know what you need to get.

So preparing questions, thinking about what this interview can offer you,

what you need to understand, what you need to learn, are all very careful and

thoughtful choices.

However, you don't want to make yourself so stiff and so

staged that when you talk to somebody you're like a robot.

You want to make it natural.

You want to make it a conversation.

You want to enable the person you're talking to who may not have ever met you

before, who might be a little bit nervous about talking to a journalist.

You want to make them feel at ease.

And that's on you.

So be personable, be conversational, be human, be real, be present.

And that takes practice.

So that's why this stage of this capstone is so important.

These are real skills that you need to have to be a successful journalist.

Now remember, you're hopefully going to be talking to at least two people,

if not three, for your final news report.

So, you're going to be doing this process a few times.

Please don't be too hard on yourself.

It's okay to be nervous.

It's okay not to feel like things went perfectly.

The bottom line though is, if you do things with an ethical standpoint

of I want to do my best to represent what this person said accurately, and

quote them properly, that's a huge step.

So please acknowledge that, and I know you will.

And just remember, you're style of interviewing is going to be unique to you.

So we're going to supply a few examples of how people interview around the world, but

you don't have to be the next Oprah Winfrey or

somebody else who's a favorite interviewer.

Be yourself, and that will win the battle in the end.

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