February 2, 2009 Code of Ethics Roundtable

Housekeeping Office hours tomorrow: 2 to 5 p.m. at Starbucks on South University If you haven’t done so, please make sure you make your blog set up for comments Duderstadt video editing clinics  Sign up at dc.umich.edu  This weekend, Final Cut Pro. If it is says it’s full, get on the waitlist. They are likely to open up the class to the waitlist. If you do sign up and want to attend, send me an and I will pass along the information to the Duderstadt folks

Monday Feb. 2 Journalist panel on ethics  Rona Kobell of the Baltimore Sun (journalist and blogger)  Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine (editor)  Chris Carey of Sharesleuth (founder of investigative journalism website funded by Mark Cuban) Come armed with questions, concerns, ethical dilemmas you would like to pose to them. Check out their work on the Facebook group page

Wednesday Feb. 4 Wednesday, February 4, 2009: Lecture and Discussion: Brainstorming A Story: Prep for Creating a News Website and Video Techniques lecture for the following week’s video introduction at ISS. Required reading: Chapter 2 in “Advancing the Story” and online exercises No. 4 Assignment: ELearning on “Advancing the Story” website (see page 53): Use e-learning tools to create a synopsis of the individual story you would like to write for the group news website. I will post these assignments in class on Wednesday to work on together. Post synopsis to blog. (Note: you will be writing a rough outline of your news story on Feb. 18 so you should begin research and interviews to be prepared for that assignment.) ***Response paper due on “Against the Machine.”***