Welcome
Intro to Photojournalism students!
Get ready to stock your
photography portfolio, extend your social media reach and improve your writing
skills.
Lesson One: What is news? This lesson seemed to freak a few of you out, considering half the class admitted to not reading, listening or watching the news...at all. Don’t worry! It’s normal to feel skeptical about learning the news business. News is a gigantic concept that's hard to wrap your head around because there is so
much of it, and it’s often negative. But news, despite all of its ugliness, is what keeps our society going.
To be informed and engaged in your local community is to be a better citizen.
In this class you will not only
learn what news is, but you will actually generate real visual news. Each of you will have your own beat on campus,
and you will cover the students and faculty in that beat for the entire
semester. Your photo stories will be worth more than a grade; you’ll be working
for the Owens Outlook newspaper, as well.
Fear not... you’ll mostly
cover ‘soft’ news (nothing heavy or controversial; mostly educational and
informative). So, tomorrow you will choose your beats (technology, nursing,
automotive, culinary, etc.) and then get started on your new, exciting
adventure of being scholastic photojournalists!
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