Assignment #4:
Advanced Reporting & Data Analysis
Jour 405V Sec. 7, Spring 2018
Assignment #4: Interviews
Due 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, March 28. Post on WordPress
Write a 500-word news story based on an interview with a person classified as working poor in Northwest Arkansas.
Consider diversity in race and occupations when selecting your interview subject.
Illustrate this post with the following:
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- A photo of your interview subject. Pay attention to background, lighting and composition.
- Use a professional Zoom recorder to gather and produce a 30-second – maximum 2 minute audio clip from your interview. Introduce your subject and the context of the interview, like you would hear on a podcast. Gather background or ambient sound of the workplace. Mix this and embed this in the blog post.
Additional Material for Graduate Students:
Interview a second person, meaning you are interviewing two people in total. The second interview has a photo and an audio clip, as described above. No graphics needed for the second interview.
Everyone:
Post the interview, graphic and photo in a single blog post, weaving them together to tell the story of your interview subject. Follow a news story format and follow AP style. This is due 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, April 11. Post on WordPress
Assignment #5. Final Production of Stories. Due May 3.
Complete the punch list of tasks to improve stories, photos, graphics; make revisions based on editing.
Assignments will be on the “Punch List” post on the class blog beginning April 5. This list will be updated weekly as we enter final production.
Participate in design and production of website for final class project. Work in teams if so assigned.
Organize Our Project
Feedback
Bobby Ampezzan
Fact Check
Attached is a spreadsheet for the fact checking process. Please put the name, email and phone number of the people you spoke to on this list. I will be contacting them and sending a few quotes to make sure everything is ok. I do this on major projects and rarely have any issues – the people we interview really appreciate the follow-up.
Editing Punch List
Andrew Epperson and Philip Sais audio.
–Question for Epperson on the Sais graphic – bar musicians
–re-edit the photo and crop it tighter
Ann Johnson, Chris Paff
–edit graphic, eliminate legend – measure names.
–update data for 2017.
Mary Kerr
–bring in the audio files, fix audio for Cathy Lee
Katie Serrano
1) Dana Ralpho
–Wage she earns at Wendy’s
–Audio clip
–More detail about her situation. This story is very brief and incomplete
2) Renee Smith
–increase in pay reference – what was that? explain
–Audio still doesn’t work.
–Photo needs cropping
–Fix graphic. Just display average annual wage
Elisabeth Butler
Abigail Jobst: Not sure where she is working (Grubs?), how much she making and if they remain in poverty status if Zeballos is back to work making $50,000?
Finished Drafts So Far
Graduate School Orientation
R: Important Resources
Haley Ruiz – Default Rates on Tableau 10/13
Congratulations
Final OVERVIEW Graphic KBN
Megan’s Headline
Dec 5 Day 29
Halie & Kris – Revision 2
Katie Beth and Haley R Mainbar Revision
Dec 3 Day 28
Katie Beth and Haley R OVERVIEW Graphics
student loan explainer
Student Loan Explainer By KB, Hailey Ruiz, Samantha Van Dyke and Caitlin Lane Many student loan borrowers do not know the difference between different types of loans that are available to them, a credit counselor at Credit Counseling of Arkansas said. Junior Autumn Jester said that she wished she had done more research before taking […]
Updating Data
Halie and Kris – HBCU Graphic(s) Revision 11/30
Definitions
How We Did It
Americans owe approximately $1.52 trillion in student loan debt, according to the latest statistics from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, which is 136 percent higher than in 2008. Student loan debt is the second highest consumer debt category, higher even than credit card loans. This semester a group of University […]
Nov 28 Day 27
Y’ALL ALREADY KNOW
OVERVIEW for Student Loan Debt Project – Haley Ruiz 11/25
Kris Smith – Student Loan Debt Race/HBCUs
Return of R Studio
Today’s set of tasks:
Data
US Ark Counties Poverty ACS_16_5YR_DP03-Jan 24-y46vv7
Race Poverty Set
ACS_16_5YR_S1701_with_ann-28nvp6q
File Header Definitions
Readings
Read / Listen:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/our-town-the-economists-report
Finish Nickel and Dimed