The News Basics

This blog supplements Simpson College course COM 211, Beginning Newswriting and Reporting. It will carry information useful to students in the class, and it may include class assignments.

Course changes considered

The Communications Department at Simpson is considering adding blogs as a component of the journalism classes. These blogs, a supplement to tradiitional course work, would be posted at least weekly by the students. The blogs would be held to good journalistic practices and would be confined to topics relevant to news coverage and news education. This blog is, in fact, a practice effort by an instructor to test out the capabilities of Blogspot as the host site for the student efforts.

News in the news

An informative blogsite for anyone interested in coverage of news coverage has been established by Brian Steffen, head of the Communications Department at Simpson College at http://prfssrduh.blogspot.com/
(Training question: How do I get the word "blogsite," above, to itself serve as the link to Professor Steffen's blog, so that I don't have to include the entire URL in my text?