Tools for On-Line Journalism

This course provides students with an introduction to the basics of new media, from the hardware needed and the challenges it poses to the intellectual dynamics of interactive media. Journalism has always been shaped and enabled by technological change, from the evolution of the printing press to the telegraph and telephone to global satellites. The challenge is to ensure that journalists learn to master the technologies and select the media elements that allow them to tell a story most effectively, rather than allowing the medium to dictate the story.