NewsVision is designed to give practical, hands-on experience in reporting, writing, and producing for broadcast media and online. The course will give a sense of what it’s like to be a multimedia journalist and improve skills in storytelling and critical-thinking. Students will explore—through lectures, guest speakers, and case studies—how ethics impact media professionals, and how governments work and impact communities and individuals. The students will conduct news meetings and learn the intricacies of newsgathering skills and techniques. They will pitch story ideas, report, write, shoot, produce and edit reporter packages in the Howard, and Washington, DC metropolitan communities as well as Capitol Hill and the White House. NewsVisionairies will also write, produce, report and anchor (and possible direct) a (live or recorded) news broadcast(s) featuring their original work. These stories and newscasts may be published in conjunction with the department’s online news website, http://www.hunewsservice.com, and the university’s PBS station, WHUT TV, which broadcasts to more than two million viewers. Students will also maintain ePortfolios (websites) featuring their packages, projects, and resume reels
Assignments for Nayo Campbell’s NewsVision class at Howard University
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