Hands on: Citizen Journalism 201

Some writers have asked for a nuts-and-bolts, hands-on workshop as a follow-up to What's Your Story? Citizen Journalism 101. Here it is!

This four-session workskhop will be offered for the first time in April-May 2011.

If you have taken Citizen Journalism 101, you will learn more here, but you can jump right in even if you haven't taken the first workshop. Here's an overview:

Week One: Who, what, when, where, why, how
Assignment: two phone calls + two paragraphs=one story

Week Two: Interviewing
Assignment: Q&A story

Week Three: Getting the picture - photos, slideshows and uploading to Flickr
Assignment: Photo essay or slide show - five photos on a theme

Week Four: Adding value on-line - links, interactivity, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr

As part of this workshop, you will produce three original stories—and we hope to publish at least some of them on the TC Daily Planet. If you can't make it to all four classes, you are also welcome to come to as many as you can.