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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: Assembling your news

This is the stage where you take all the research, interviews and facts and transform it into a news report for a public audience. You will execute, based on your own journalistic process, developing critical thinking skills, news judgment and the art of delivering ethical and effective news reports for your audience. It's sometimes easy, sometimes very challenging. Each news report is unique. Follow where your facts, news gathering and interviews take you.

Putting together your newsgathering2:08

Using quotes effectively11:48

Multimedia and you4:28

Developing leads4:53

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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 at the fun stage, to me, of the whole process of assembling a news report.

So we've got our topic, we've got our format, we have done the news gathering,

we've done the interviews, I hope they went fantastic for you.

Now's the time to sit down and put your evidence before you.

Your interviews, your documents, whatever else you need to do for your news report.

This is the time to really kind of play detective.

What do I have? What do I don't have?

Do I answer the questions that people need to know?

Do I have some amazing quotes that I can't wait to put in my news report?

This is where you really need to sit down and be critical.

Do you know what you're supposed to be talking about?

Did what you gathered during the process support

the news report topic that you chose?

If it did not, let's say you were doing a news report topic about

a new park that was going into your city.

And you had initially thought that people would be against the park because

of its location.

But during the the reporting process and

your interviews, people said, we love the park.

We can't wait til it gets here.

You need to then, in your news report, reflect what your reporting shows.

Irresponsible journalists sometimes just drive ahead with whatever they thought

their original concept was and make the facts fit the narrative.

Please don't do that.

You need to reflect what you've learned.

That's a simple process in that you just need to be open.

You don't need to say that you were wrong.

An initial news report topic is simply that.

It's the initial guess of what you want to do.

You might have a good idea, but things change.

Life changes.

Facts change.

People change their mind.

You need to be reflective of that, because if you don't,

that's where we get into the trap of being biased.

And, as we've talked previously, bias in journalism is a very serious topic.

So good luck assembling your news report.

Be thoughtful, think about your quotes, think about what you want for a lede.

And we can't wait to see what you put together.

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