This assignment incorporates: hards news writing for online, live Tweeting, and social media reporting. Each of these are different ways of covering the same one story or topic. This assignment is meant to assess your skill both with writing hard news that can run in an online context and your skill and understanding of how social media can be used to help report the news.
Part 1, Do Your Hard News Writing for Online: You will write a hard news story on a news, lifestyle, sports, or arts/entertainment topic or person of your choice that pertains to UNCC and could run in the Niner Times. The reporting must be original and your own. All sources, direct and indirect, must be cited. This needs to be hard-news or interview style – no opinion pieces.
Write the piece in a minimum of 250 words. It should be written in journalistic style, edited, and formatted as a news story for online. That means an online-appropriate headline, subhead, use of images, hyperlinks, etc. Again – this isn’t just a hard news story, it’s an online hard news story.