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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

26 classificações

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: The final product!

Congratulations! You are almost to the finish line of this Specialization Capstone. We know you have come a long way in learning about journalism and how journalists work. Now it is your turn to present your work to our Coursera community. But first, you need to make sure your news report is ready for the world! You will present a draft to the learner community, receive the Learner peer feedback, and use it make the news report final! It is time for YOU to be the journalist, using your skills, ethics and standards honed during this Specialization. Your social media "Journalism" badge will also be unlocked for you within this course.

It's time to do it!2:18

The takeaway4:36

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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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Guess what?

It's time to write your news report.

I know, that sounds a little scary,

because you may have never done this before.

But that's why you're here, this moment is for you.

You've gone through a specialization, you've gone through the courses and

the modules, and the lessons, and the discussions.

We know, it's a lot of work.

But now, it's time to have the work pay off.

You get to sit down and tell the world what you learned.

You get to tell the world what kind of a journalist you are.

So, why would you be scared at this moment?

We're human, knowing that our work will be presented to the world,

open to criticism, praise, commentary, that can be scary.

But you're prepared for this moment, you've thought about this moment.

The work that you've done in the previous weeks,

in this capstone has been thoughtful.

We know it has, because we see your comments.

The most important thing though is to sit down and not be paralyzed by fear.

Just do it.

Write the very best news report that you can.

Include the very best multimedia elements from either photography, or

video, or sound, or social media, or charts.

Present your very best in the world because that's what the world demands from

journalists.

100%, meaning that we get all of our facts right and execution right.

That is what the world demands of journalism.

So, don't be paralyzed by thinking that way.

Do your very best, be your very best and it'll all work out.

So, when we're doing this, it's all about your preparation which you've done.

So if you sit down and you had writer's block, it's okay.

Write the parts you know, put the quotes together, put some of the facts together

you know and then the leads, the start, and the flow will naturally come.

The main thing though is to please be kind to yourself, this takes time.

You might need to do this a couple of times to make it right.

You might need to do it ten times before it gets right.

That's the process.

That's what we all do as journalists.

But it's all about the final product.

And we know that your final news report is going to be amazing and awesome.

And you should be proud when you're done to share it with the world.

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