JOUR 3215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Yasir Naqvi, Catherine Mckenna, Rideau Canal

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Journalism and Communication
• Course: JOUR 3215
• Professor: Randy Boswell

Document Summary

3 x 500-600 word stories over 6 weeks, 3 sources per. Capital of canada encompassing parliament, war museum, museum of nature, bytowne museum, nac, lebreton flats, ottawa river, rideau canal, lgbtq+ village, little italy, chinatown, etc. Vibrant and interesting place with challenging, interesting and complicated things happening. Traffic converging in centre- can be dangerous, and has challenges- trying to get people to travel in different ways. Area within: otrain, ottawa river, rideau canal, queensway, area within. Mp yasir naqvi mpp- attorney general of ontario. Stories we generate need to be mostly located in centretown- has to have a very good centretown connection if not located there. Readership will care about smaller stories, because it"s a small community. Story ideas- different than writing for a big paper. But don"t be satisfied with boring stories- try to come up with unique and interesting ideas. Thursday at 5 pm- story plan (quick description of what story will be, idea for picture, etc. )