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Capstone: Create your own professional journalistic portfolio

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Michigan State University

Capstone: Create your own professional journalistic portfolio

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Cours 5 sur 5 dans Specialization Become a Journalist: Report the News!

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.

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Capstone news report portfolio: the start!

You are now embarking on the important steps to create your own journalistic news report portfolio, which is be your Capstone final assignment. This journey will take you through the process journalists use to deliver the news to their audiences, providing a strong opportunity to display your skills honed during the Specialization Courses. You will start your portfolio here, through making your first choices: determining the topic and style for your news report.

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Joanne Gerstner
Sports Journalist in Residence
Michigan State University School of Journalism
Jeremy Steele
Specialist
Michigan State University School of Journalism
David Poulson
Instructor
School of Journalism
Eric Freedman
Instructor
School of Journalism
Joe Grimm
Instructor
School of Journalism
Lucinda D. Davenport
Director & Professor
School of Journalism

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Welcome to the first step in creating your own Capstone Project.

We're going to talk a little bit about some of the things you need to do

along the way.

First of all, it's very important that you don't freak out.

And what I mean by this is,

this is going to take a little bit of trial and error.

So, please forgive yourself.

It's the end product that matters.

The process is sometimes messy, a little bit ugly.

But guess what?

The best journalism, it's all about creating the best final product,

the very best news report that you can possibly do.

We're going to help you do that.

So, in order to kick this off, you need to think about what I want to do.

What is my news report going to be about?

Simply put, that's going to be your choice.

We can't tell you what to do because we're so

honored that our learners come from around the world.

The best suggestion we have for you is the following.

Pick something local, because you're going to need to do

something that you have access to, so if you pick something kind of outlandish,

like I'm going to do an interview with the Pope, or I'm going to talk to

Justin Bieber, or I'm going to get an exclusive interview with Ronaldo.

Those are great Ideas,

but if you can't execute them, they're just that, they're ideas.

We want you to pick something practical, something real.

The style of the news report that you're going to create for

your final Capstone Project is going to take one of two forms.

It can either be hard news, and

we've talked about this previously in the courses about what hard news is, and

just to refresh you, we also will have a video about choosing news topics.

But also, a quick little reminder right now, hard news are serious topics.

So, issues that face your community, crime, schools,

taxes, things that are of public interest.

Or you can do what we call feature.

And again, we'll provide some refreshers in here if you've forgotten what a feature

is, but a feature is a profile on a person, a thing, an event.

Again, picking something local is crucial because you need to do interviews,

you need to do news gathering.

So, having it around you will make it a little bit easier and

also give you a better experience.

We'd like to remind you too that ethical conduct throughout this Capstone

is not only encouraged, but it is mandatory.

Your interviews must be real.

Your facts must be real.

So please put yourself in a position where you can have access to things

that will enable you to be the very best you can be.

So good luck picking your topic, and

we can't wait to see what you're going to choose for your Capstone.

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