When I first started teaching JRN 200, one of the required readings was a book entitled "The Elements of Journalism," which went less into how to do journalism and more into why we do journalism in the particular ways of this field.
I thought it was a great primer, but some time back there was a realization that we had waaay too many book readings in that class, so "E of J" was downgraded to an optional read.
Still, I thought the points and principles of the text were worth sharing, as those are the ones we will be executing in JRN 300 this summer. So what we'll do this week is read a summary of each chapter via the blog, which should take much less time than pouring through the book, or even listening to lectures about it, or watching a video lecture.
I thought it was a great primer, but some time back there was a realization that we had waaay too many book readings in that class, so "E of J" was downgraded to an optional read.
Still, I thought the points and principles of the text were worth sharing, as those are the ones we will be executing in JRN 300 this summer. So what we'll do this week is read a summary of each chapter via the blog, which should take much less time than pouring through the book, or even listening to lectures about it, or watching a video lecture.
Consider this something to supplement what you learned in 200 (or, if you had me in 200, this is a refresher) so we can go beyond who/what/when/where and focus on why and how in this class.
So, please follow along in the subsequent posts ...
So, please follow along in the subsequent posts ...
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