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4984-7984 Reading Schedule

Summer 2010 Vox print department editors (Magazine Staff) class schedule
Monday readings are from The Layers of Magazine Editing. Friday readings are from Journalism Next. Other readings are hyperlinked.

** Schedule subject to change **

Monday, May 24
Finish orientation. Magazine office layout; week’s work; distribute syllabi, etc (drastically shortened class)

Friday, May 28
Introduction to Django, our Web publishing system. Questions/concerns/first week issues.
Steve Yelvington on Do’s and Dont’s about Web commenting for reporters

Monday, May 31
Memorial Day. No class. Regular 4 p.m. meeting is mandatory.

Friday, June 4
Evans, chapter 1: Conceptualizing the magazine
Evans, chapter 6: Pitching ideas, writing assigning memos and assigning stories
Tim O’Reilly on Web 2.0
ReadWriteWeb on Understanding Web 3.0

Monday, June 7
Briggs, Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2
Internet basics, SEO, CSS/HTML, beginning blogging
Carrie Brown on Do Social Media and Do It Now
Online Journalism Blog on Student Journalists Need to Understand SEO
Search Engine Journal on 10 Ways Journalists Can Conquer SEO

Friday, June 11
Evans, chapter 7: Editing for content
io9 on The One Thing George Lucas Could Do To Sway The People In His Favor
Red Letter Media‘s Phantom Menace review (part 6)

Red Letter Media‘s Attack of the Clones review (part 7; first portion)

Monday, June 14
Briggs, chapter 10: Managing News as a Conversation
Steve Yelvington on Don’t underestimate the importance of small talk
Me on What newspapers forgot: Conversation
Matt Thompson on 10 questions for journalists in the era of overload
Poynter on 5 Ways to Crowdsource

Friday, June 18 (Rob on vacation)
Discussion/guest lecture: Vox’s greatest hits (ie biggest failures)

Monday, June 21
Briggs, chapter 4: Microblogging
Jen Reeves’ Twitter tips
Carrie Brown on Journalists and Social Media
Jeremy Littau on Twitter to News

Monday, June 28
Evans, chapter 8: Editing for tone
Evans, chapter 9: Editing for structure
Matt Thompson on There is only us
Jay Rosen on The Future of Context

Friday, July 2
Evans, chapter 3: The mission. Bring to class any revisions you have for the mission statement (esp. as applies to Vox online content and utility).
Martin Langeveld on The Content Cascade
The Guardian on No use crying over spilt ink
Jake Sherlock’s Twitter manifesto

Monday, July 5 – Friday, July 9: No Class. Throw a party

Monday, July 12
Briggs, chapter 6: Visual Storytelling with Photographs
O’Reilly Media on The State of the Internet Operating System

Friday, July 16
Briggs, chapter 7: Making Audio Journalism Visible
O’Reilly Media on Handicapping the Internet Platform Wars

Monday, July 19
Evans, Chapter 10: Fact-checking, bring to class your proposed guidelines for appropriate sources
Evans, Chapter 4: Law
John McPhee’s “Checkpoints” article (class handout)
Jake Sherlock on Accuracy in new media: Why it’s more important than ever

Friday, July 23
Briggs, chapter 8: Telling Stories with Video
10,000 Words on Online and multimedia storytelling from the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners
SND 2009 multimedia winners

Monday, July 26
Chapter 16: Your first (paid) magazine job (resumes, interviews, etc) Bring your resume.
Steve Yelvington on Notes from the unification
Carrie Brown on Let’s All Be In This Together

Friday, July 30
Briggs, chapter 9: Digitzing Your Life
MediaStorm’s Ten Ways To Improve Your Multimedia Production Right Now

Monday, August 2
Evans, Chapter 15: The business side
Steve Outing on How to use the Web to Prevent Remaining Print Readers from Fleeing
Steve Yelvington on Is News Fungible?
Steve Yelvington on Please stop calling print the core product
Steve Yelvington on Looking outside the new core
Carrie Brown on Ad Departments Can Help us Save Journalism
OJB on 10 Ways that Ad Sales People can Save Newspapers
Eric Flint on the Baen Free Library

Friday, August 6
Briggs, chapter 5: Going Mobile

Monday, August 9
Briggs, chapter 11: Building a Digital Audience for News

Friday, August 13
Evaluations and wrap-up.