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.
This course is part of the Become a Journalist: Report the News! Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
3 hours to complete
Capstone news report portfolio: the start!
3 hours to complete
2 videos (Total 5 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz
2 hours to complete
Capstone news report portfolio: News gathering
2 hours to complete
3 videos (Total 17 min)
2 hours to complete
Capstone news report portfolio: Interviewing sources
2 hours to complete
3 videos (Total 15 min)
5 hours to complete
Capstone news report portfolio: Assembling your news
5 hours to complete
4 videos (Total 23 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes
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