Please note the following required texts:
- Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive by Mark Briggs can be downloaded for free. Also be sure to check out the author’s blog.
- Multimedia and Technology Training by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the USC Annenberg School for Communication. This is a website, not a book, but it is a key “text” for this class.
- J-Learning: How-to Site for Community Journalism by the J-Lab. As with the previous website, some assignments and readings will come from here.
- Two guides to audio editing by Mindy McAdams. Both are free, downloadable PDF documents.
Supplementary books for further reference:
- Photojournalism, Fifth Edition: The Professionals’ Approach, by Kenneth Kobre.
- Associated Press Guide to Photojournalism, by Brian Horton.
- The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Completely Updated and Revised, by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel.
- Web Journalism: Practice and Promise of a New Medium, by James Glen Stovall.
- 網路新聞學：新媒體的應用實務與展望 (Chinese translation of the Stovall book above).
Style Guides:
- The Economist Syle Guide (British)
- Bartleby (USA & International – dictionaries/quotations, styleguides)
- A Handbook of Reuters Journalism (British/USA) – more than just a style guide, it includes references to reporting, editing and photojournalism practices and requirements
