We will use this r ecord of your work to talk about how you are doing in class and what you think your grade should be. Not only can computer-assisted reporting teach us a lot about reporting, we must have a firm grounding in solid reporting methods and sound journalistic thinking, or else CAR becomes just a newer, fancier way to produce sloppy reporting. To put it another way, by the time the course is over, that s when most students are ready to start. You also get the running-start advantage of a story that is already started, mapped and perhaps has the data available. One of the facts of life is that data negotiation almost never fits inside a college semester.
Every student puts one in, and takes another out.
You will write a memo each week. The memos are cumulative, so you ll put the most recent at the top of the previous weeks . Data and documents. What are they and what you must know to use them. Story outline, possible or working version of lede, nut graf.