Reporting
-- COMM 2209 --
AP Style basic help: click here
Background report: Sam Bankman-Fried
BenU Lisle: Safety Report
Clinton Speech: Speech audio | Backup .pdf
Ethics (all): SPJ code
Hilke Schellmann story: AI and employment
Is this news?: M and M's | Cuoco
Invert pyramid example: click here
Police report story assignment: click here
Sidebar example: click here
Whistle-blowers: click here
Worksheet: Ethics questions
-- COMM 3337 --
Background report: Rod Blagojevich
The Candor Handbook: click here
Google News Initiative: Jurno main doc | Investigating stories with A.I. | Jurno assignment doc
List of important websites for reporters: click here
How to build an investigative story: Online version | .pdf version
Practice story info: click here
Scripts, Screenplay: Rick and Morty script | Video clip
Scripts, News satire: Headlines | Comedy: Adopt a dog
Storm the Capitol assignment: Google Drive
Textbook, Investigative Journalist manual: click here
Write a headline, practice: click here
Write a color story, practice: click here |
Google Drive Sites
COMM 2209 - Basic Reporting
COMM 3381 - Web Design
COMM 4393 - Senior Portfolio
A.I. Task Force
Artificial Intelligence
A.I. and journalism doc: Main | How to start | Professional uses
A.I. fabricated story: Me story | Watergate
Sports, future of coverage: click here
Goggle: Pinpoint | Gemini
OpenAI - ChatGPT4: click here
Prompt examples book (class use only): click here
Prompt engineering class (4393): click here
SPJ journalist toolbox, list of AI sources: click here | Media Party handout
Design | Web & Print
Audio clip, Falling: right click here
CSS examples: Floats | Boxer page | Responsive site | Whole page example
Photos that can be used in Photoshop: set 1 | set 2
Photoshop, How to Do Basics video: click here
Website design, examples: COMM 2208
Website design, examples: COMM 3381
-- Sites/books that teach and have code (3381)
Good sites: HTML Dog | W3Schools
Textbooks, Ours: Ours | Another option |
Stories
-- COMM 2209 --
Car crash story example (2209): click here
CB stories, Honduras stories (2209): Main bar | Side bar
CB stories, Alex Lowe climber (2209): Alex Lowe
Features example: (2209) Paddelwheel
Full story, Domestic (2209): Story | Doc 1 | Doc 2 | Doc 3
-- COMM 3337 ---
CB stories, color (3337): Chris can | Brodie
Features examples: (3337) Screenwriter | (3337) Horse Rescue
Harvard sexual harass (3337): Story | Lawsuit | Statement | Open letter I | Open letter II
Spotlight original story, (3337): click here
Student final story, red light cameras (3337): click here
Student final story, sex offender (3337): click here
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The Candor stories
-- News Stories
Candor, (2209) racial slur, coach: Main bar | Follow-up
Candor, (2209) Abbot Austin releases statement: click here
Candor, (2209) coach and student: click here
Candor, (3337) ISIS story: Main bar | Public doc
Candor, (3337) lawsuit: Monk lawsuit
Candor, (3337) monk abuse: story | documents file
Candor, (3337) racial slur, professor: click here
Candor, (3337) budget: click here
-- Other Types
Candor, (2209) Nutrition class in Italy (coverage): click here
Candor, (2264) Men's Volleyball game story: click here
Candor, (2264) Men's Volleyball preview: click here
Candor, (2264) DII transition: Apply for DII | Move Conferences | Return to DIII |
Public Documents
-- Birks Library of Public Docs --
Fire report, DuPage Co. (2209): click here
Lawsuit, Pepe the Frog (2209): click here
Police report, Drug arrest (2209): click here
Police report (CO)., Argument (2209): click here
Aurora Lawsuit (3337): Lawsuit | Story1 | Story II
FOIA letter, OHare (3337): Example | Approved
Jan 6 arrests (3337): Criminal complaint | Supporting docs
Lawsuit, Groupon (3337): click here
People search report (3337): Rod R Blagojevich
Police report, Fake crime assignment (3337): click here
Police report, Car Crash (3337): click here
Police report, Stalking (3337): click here
Police report, Assault (3337): click here |
Photography
Adobe Animate, pigeon: Background | Tree | Final video
Photo essays - Final Salute | Flint Jaguars
Photos that can be used in Photoshop: set 1 | set 2
Photoshop, How to Do Basics video: click here
Script Example: click here
Student photo essay examples - Life of a tutor | Day of a Table | Roadblocks to access
Student video (Simple Story I) examples: Track | Playing Pool | Day in the Life
Solutions Journalism: Peace photo story
Textbook, Silk Road book: click here
Video, Dog trainer: click here
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Jobs, Internships, Etc.
Resume, cover letter and jobs (IMPORTANT): click here
LinkedIn career guide: click here
Student Portfolio examples I: click here
Student Portfolio examples II: click here |
Misc.
Where I am From poem (4393): click here
Monsters courtesy of The Oatmeal
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