1st Semester
August:
Policies & procedures
Definition of news: coming up with story ideas
Roles of the newspaper/media
News terminology
Interview Skills
Reporter’s journal
September:
Refine interview skills
Research
Sections of the newspaper: features, sports, editorials,
entertainment
Photojournalism/beginning digital photography
Beginning newspaper layout
First newspaper issue released 9/27/05
October:
Writing Skills: revising, editing
Fact and opinion
History of the newspaper
Editorials
Research-based projects assigned (historical)
Second issue released
November
History of photojournalism
Advanced digital photography
Newspaper as entertainment
Advertising
December:
Time to work on and refine research-based projects
Third issue released
END OF FIRST SEMESTER
January:
Issues in journalism: investigative reporting
February:
Issues in journalism:
Libel
Plagiarism
yellow journalism
fairness in reporting
Research-based projects assigned (issues-centered)
Fourth issue released
March:
Issues in journalism: freedom of the press
April:
Careers in journalism (possible field trip to Maui
News)
Journalism/media in the electronic age
May:
Advanced layout/desktop publishing/online publishing
Self-study, retrospective
fifth issue released
