News Editing

Tentative Calendar

January 21: Welcome and Introduction

January 23: Please bring in a hard-news story and a feature story; "The Basics of Journalism"

January 26: Quiz: Chapter 2; Continuing discussion of "The Basics"

January 28: Snow Day

January 30: Grammar Review Continued

February 2: More on grammar and "The Basics of Journalism";

February 4: Homework Assignment #1 due;

February 6: GUEST LECTURE -- Speaker: Professor Alison Dobbins, Stark State College of Technology, North Canton, Ohio; Subject: Multimedia Presentation

February 9: Quiz: Chapter 3; Please bring in an AP Stylebook if you have one

February 11: AP Style continued; Please bring the AP Stylebook if you have one

February 13: Homework assignment #2 due

February 16: Presidents' Day (No classes)

February 17: We follow a Monday schedule on this Tuesday; Quiz: Chapter 5

February 18: More practice editing

February 20: Homework assignment #3 due

February 23: Quiz: Chapter 1

February 25:

February 27: No class today

March 2: Snow Day

March 4: Quiz: Chapter 9

March 6: Homework Assignment postponed

March 9: Homework assignment #4 due; Review for Midterm; Headline writing continued

March 11: Midterm Exam

March 13: Friday the Thirteenth

SPRING BREAK

March 23: More on headline writing

March 25: Headlines continued

March 27 Headlines continued

March 30: Quiz: Chapter 11

April 1: More on layout

April 3: Homework assignment #5 due

April 6: Layout continued

April 8: Layout continued

April 10: Layout continued

April 13: Quiz: Chapter 10

April 15: Head du jour; Layout practice (cont.)

April 17: No class today

April 20: Patriots' Day (No classes)

April 22: Quiz: Chapter 7

April 24: Layout practice

April 27: Web page layout

April 29: Web layout continued

May 1: Review for final

May 4: Final homework assignment due

May 8: Final exam -- 12:20 1