Journalism 133: Prof. Craig: Community Quirk Story
Community Quirk Story
The Community Quirk is a story about any element of San Jose or neighboring communities that is unusual, unexpected or otherwise quirky. It's up to your group to decide what fits that description. The story will be 650-800 words with a minimum of three interviews.
Whether you're from the San Jose area or not, this assignment will likely involve going online and looking for information about people and events in the region. As with any other major metro area, San Jose has plenty of community event calendars, organizations with websites and news outlets where you can look for story ideas.
As before, you've been assigned to groups, and you will have 15-20 minutes to come up with story ideas. We will reconvene after that and you will pitch your story ideas to the group. The story will be due at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, October 22.
As with last time, you may divide the labor in this assignment in any way you choose, but the finished project must go through a minimum of one round of editing within the group before submission. Edit each other's work however you see fit.
After it's been turned in, each of you will submit the Group Activities Form and let me know who did what within your group. The form is due within 24 hours of when the story is due.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Israel Archie Jennifer Yin |
Jordan Soto Diego Macaraeg |
Larry Larkin Lizeth Palma Cuesta Agustin Tapia |
Sophia Sipe Angela Nguyen |
Iber Moreno Maya Pettiford |