UMass Internet Journalist

UMass Internet Journalist


A WWW site for the Creation and Study of Journalism


This site was archived in June 1996 to preserve for future study the schedule of assignments and best student work presented in the news editing and magazine article writing courses taught with the help of the World-Wide Web in the 1996 Spring Semester by University of Massachusetts Journalism Professor Sara Grimes.



"I tried to bring
the instincts of a scholar
to the service of journalism;
to take nothing for granted;
to turn journalism
into literature; to provide
radical analysis
with a conscientious concern
for accuracy,
and in studying the
current scene
to do my very best
to preserve
human values and
free institutions."
-- I.F. Stone


Graphic and quote
from University of Massachusetts
Journalism Department
brochure.

Text only version



Can the World-Wide Web help educators teach values and practices espoused by serious journalists? Or will it only further cloud the very definition of what a journalist is or should be -- drawing all of us further into the fog of mind-numbing media commercialism and info-entertainment?
Stay tuned ...

--Sara Grimes



Interactive Course Assignments for Journ 375 and 492M

Best Student Work


WWW Help

Editing Class / Magazine Class / Assigned Sites / Assigned Readings


Copyright and major web assigments / Reading Week / Books / Site Reviews / / Syllabus

Assigned WWW Sites

UMass
Journalism Home Page

A.Word.A.Day

URouLette

New Bedford Standard Times

Utne Reader

Spelling Test,
By Mindy McAdams

Purdue Writing Lab - Quotations

The Copyediting-1 Style FAQ

Web Page Editing
By Mike Moxcey

search.com

Web Style Manual
By Patrick J. Lynch

Columbia Journalism Review

BronxBeat

New Media Workshop

Assigned Readings

Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.

"I Say It's Mudpath"

The King's English
by H.W. Fowler
Editor's note on Fowler

Introduction
Best Newspaper Writing of 1995,
Poynter Institute of Media Studies

"Cybersources"
from Katherine Fulton's article
titled http:www.journalism.now/
A tour of our uncertain future
from the March/April 1996 issue
of Columbia Journalism Review













 News Editing
Tuesday
9.30-10.45 		News Editing
Thursday
9.30-10.45		 Magazine Writing
Tuesday
11.15-12.30		 Magazine Writing
Thursday
11.15-12.30
Week#1,
Jan 30E
Introduction		Week#1,
Feb 1E
News, Review, Students 		Week#1,
Jan 30M 1
Introduction		 Week#1,
Feb 1M
News, Review, Students
Week#2,
Feb 6E
Class Review		 Week#2,
Feb 8E
Class Review		Week#2,
Feb 6M
Class Review		 Week#2,
Feb 8M
Class Review
Week#3,
Feb 13E
Review		Week#3,
Feb 15E
Review		 Week#3,
Feb 13M
Review		 Week#3,
Feb 15M
Review
Week#4,
Feb 20E
No Class		Week#4,
Feb 22E
Review		 Week#4,
Feb 20M
No Class		 Week#4,
Feb 22M
Review
Week#5,
Feb 27E
Review		Week#5,
HTML-Assignment		 Week#5,
Feb 27M
Review		 Week#5,
Feb 29M
HTML-Assignment
Week#6,
March 5E
Review>
Week#6,
March 7E
Review
 Week#6,
March 5M
Review
 Week#6,
March 7M
Review
Week#7,
March 12E
Reading
No class
Week#7,
March 14E
Reading
No class
 Week#7,
March 12M
Reading
No class
 Week#7,
March 14M
Reading
No class
March 19E
Spring		 March 21E
Break		 March 19M
Spring		 March 21M
Break
Week#8,
Mar 26
Word Usage
Review		Week#8,
Mar 28
Presentations 		Week#8,
Mar 26
Word Usage
Review		Week#8,
Mar 28
Presentations
Week#9,
Apr 2
Open-book Quiz		Week#9,
Apr 4
Presentations		Week#9,
Apr 2
Interviews/Quotes		Week#9,
Apr 4
Presentations
Week#10, Apr 9
Web editing		Week#10,
Apr 11
HTML class		Week #10,
Apr 9
Research		 Week #10,
Apr 11
HTML class
Week#11
April 16
Libel 		Week#11,
Apr 18
Production		Week #11,
Apr 16
Readings		 Week #11,
Apr 18
Production
Week#12,
Apr 23
Graphics class		Week#12,
Apr 25
Presentations		Week #12,
Apr 23
Graphics class		 Week #12,
Apr 25
Presentations
Week#13,
Apr 30
Research/editing		Week#13,
May 2
Best Sites
Announced		Week #13,
Apr 30
Tutorials		 Week#13,
May 2
Best Sites
Announced
Week#14,
May 7
Review		Week#14,
May 9
Review		 Week #14,
May 7
Review		 Week #14,
May 9
Review

Tuesday, May 14: Last class

Copyright (C) 1995, Sara Grimes
Journalism Department
University of Massachusetts/Amherst
All rights reserved.

Last update: June 2, 1996