à la carte workshops Social Media Reporting
About the workshop
Learn how to use social media strategically to help you develop story ideas, connect with sources and experts, crowdsource information and engage with your audience. You’ll learn tips about searching, monitoring and organizing information on a variety of social platforms to improve your reporting. You’ll also get the opportunity to test-drive some social media applications to make the process easier.
Learning Objectives
- To understand the connection between social media and journalistic reporting
- To use social media as a tool for journalism and creating stories
- To learn different social media apps to enhance your reporting abilities
Faculty Lead: Michelle Carr Hassler
Michelle Carr Hassler is passionate about teaching students how to think big and in new ways by helping them take advantage of all that digital journalism has to offer.
Hassler teaches multimedia journalism courses, including the capstone course in which students publish stories in NewsNetNebraska, the college's news website. She also created and taught the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s first social media course for journalism majors.
Before coming to University of Nebraska–Lincoln, she was a newspaper reporter and editor for 16 years, beginning as an education reporter at the Tempe Daily News and Mesa Tribune. She also served as state editor at the Lincoln Journal and night city editor and interim editorial page editor at the Lincoln Journal Star.
She received a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's in English, both from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
If the faculty lead is not available to teach a workshop, another qualified faculty member will be arranged.
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