Next week, both 621 sessions

On Monday we will be combining the two 621 sections for a Monday class. Wednesday Section .02 students will attend the Monday .01 class for this one time to take advantage of a special class guest. There will be no Wednesday class for .02.

Our guest will be Meg Heckman. She is riding the crest of the wave into the new world of digital reporting and publishing. Meg will join the UNH Journalism Program faculty as a lecturer in January. Here is her bio:

I’m a post-platform journalist with more than a decade of experience covering communities both big and small. I attended the University of New Hampshire and completed fellowships with the Poynter Institute and the New York Times Foundation. I'm currently a graduate student at Northeastern University where I'm researching women's roles in emerging digital news organizations. My recent work has been published by Poynter.org, Editor & Publisher, NetNewsCheck.com, the Columbia Journalism Review and the Center for Digital Ethics & Policy at Loyola University. 

Meg has asked that you do some reading to prepare you for the class, so here is an assignment. Remember, this is in addition to your regular weekly stories, which are due Monday in class for section .01 and Wednesday by noon via email for section .02. Everyone in both sections should do this reading.

Meg plans a quick overview of how online narrative has evolved and then ask students to take of their stories from the term so far and try to adapt it to one of the new platforms. This means you should have access to a digital version of the story you would like to play with. So email the digital file to yourself, or whatever. Since this is a writing class, Meg will focus on text-heavy tools like Medium, ScrollKit, etc. So please look at this retro gem, this blog post she wrote about how one Northeastern student covered the marathon bombing, and this project by the NYT.