A one-of-a-kind interactive multimedia online workbook takes students to the next level.

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Wenger and Potter’s online workbook is so much more than a few resources on a web page. With original video footage, customized functionality, and proven ideas drawn from years of leading training seminars, this workbook is a treasure trove of projects, videos, and tutorials. In addition to self-testing, students can email solutions and write-ups to instructors, arming you with valuable teaching tools and ready-made assignments.

Organized by chapter, the online workbook includes the following sections:

• Study. Concise summaries include annotated bulleted lists of the most important concepts.
• Skill Building. In Web-based exercises students apply techniques and principles such as honing computer assisted reporting skills, writing focus statements, developing a blog, creating a line-up, and testing their ethical decision-making. Students also create their very own multimedia portfolio to use as they enter the job market.
• Ongoing Story. This innovative project allows students to write and report a story from beginning to end. Starting with a news release, students conduct virtual interviews, plan a one-day shoot, review data to add depth, log sound and video, plan and write a package as well as a stand-up and Web version and develop a multimedia story plan. As students complete each step, they can see what the authors did with the same story at each stage.
• Discover. With an array of journalism examples, such as marked-up web pages, print articles, slide shows, or videos with linked examples, students see models of first-rate work they can emulate.
• Explore. Fully annotated links include information on tracking media trends, developing story ideas, and evaluating online sources, among other essential multiplatform information.

And there’s an author blog, too!
Wenger and Potter keep a blog updating both instructors and students with developments in the industry and new resources for advancing the story.

Debora Halpern Wenger, a 17-year broadcast news veteran, is associate professor for media convergence and new media at Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to her academic appointment, Wenger served as assistant news director at WFLA-TV in Tampa, FL. She started her career as a reporter/anchor at KXJB in Fargo, ND, moved on to producing at WBBH in Ft. Myers, FL and WMUR in Manchester, NH, then became executive producer at WSOC in Charlotte, NC. Wenger conducts multimedia training in newsrooms around the country and is a co-author of the online journalism curriculum for the Society of Professional Journalists’ Newsroom Training Program.

Deborah Potter is a veteran journalist and educator who spent 16 years as a network correspondent for CBS News and CNN covering the White House, State Department, Congress, national politics and environmental issues. She worked in local television and radio as a producer and anchor. Potter is executive director of News-Lab (www.newslab.org), an online resource center for journalists in Washington, D.C., that she founded in 1998. Potter leads workshops for journalists in newsrooms across the United States and around the world and is a featured columnist for the American Journalism Review, writing about broadcast news.