Getting their mojo back: A solutions approach for first-year journalism students

Getting their mojo back: A solutions approach for first-year journalism students. Salas, A. Facts & Frictions: Emerging debates, pedagogies and practices in contemporary journalism, November, 2023.

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Production skills are critical in multimedia journalism classes. Traditionally taught in a hands-on way, the pandemic forced many teachers to replace in-person multimedia instruction with Zoom sessions and instructional videos. Predictably, students in journalism programs across the country struggled to keep up. This commentary will describe how first-year journalism students at Concordia University were asked to report on “what is working and why” in relation to the pandemic in their home communities. This solutions-oriented shift in the central reporting question positioned students differently in relation to the news they were covering and produced a more personalized, engaged perspective on social impacts of the pandemic.

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	abstract = {Production skills are critical in multimedia journalism classes. Traditionally taught in a hands-on way, the pandemic forced many teachers to replace in-person multimedia instruction with Zoom sessions and instructional videos. Predictably, students in journalism programs across the country struggled to keep up. This commentary will describe how first-year journalism students at Concordia University were asked to report on “what is working and why” in relation to the pandemic in their home communities. This solutions-oriented shift in the central reporting question positioned students differently in relation to the news they were covering and produced a more personalized, engaged perspective on social impacts of the pandemic.},
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	author = {Salas, Aphrodite},
	month = nov,
	year = {2023},
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