MM STORYTELLING final (Writibg as a workflow and story packaging)

Writing as a workflow

Emphasizes collaboration, process, and adaptation: journalists must coordinate with others, manage multiple media types, and consider platform and audience

Writing as a workflow: Writing & Story construction

Writing is not isolated: it must consider multimedia components, data visualizations, layout, and how the story will live online/mobile-decidibg what does in the text, what becomes interactive, what becomes images or data visuals

Writing as a workflow: How it helps

Helps adapt journalism to the pace and demands of digital publishing: timeliness, continuous publishing, re-use of assets, updates, multimedia

Writing as a workflow

Writing doesn’t stand alone- it must integrate with other media types and new processes (asset collection, verification, packaging, distribution)

Writing as a workflow: The Pedagogical design

(With learning objectives + takeaways + “advancers”) Signals that digital journalism is a skill set/process that must be learned and practiced