In the bureau, you will get informal feedback each week on your progress on particular assignments. You'll also get a written mid-term evaluation, in which we will discuss your strengths and weaknesses and you will be given advice on how to improve your work. Each week, you will be given primary responsibility for updating one of the section fronts or the home page. This means you will have a say in what stories are selected for packaging, how they'll be displayed, and what photos, graphics and headlines will be used to accompany text. Working from templates, you will write the basic code to place those features on the page.
Specific pages carry additional responsibilities.
While you are taking care of your section fronts and home pages, you also will be juggling some reporting and multi-media assignments, as well as some packaging of special reports. Each of you must research and write at least two interactive news quizzes. Each of you must pull together at least one photo gallery with informative, extended captions, on an event or topic. The photo gallery must include from six to 12 strong pictures. Your pictures and captions should tell a story.