About
The Ozarks News Journal website is a laboratory for discovering how to make the best use of the World Wide Web and social media for producing journalism. Students in the JRN378 Multimedia Journalism class seek to understand more than just how to make the web and social media tools work for news gathering and publishing. They seek to understand how to use these tools to fulfill the primary purpose of journalism: To give citizens the information they need to be free and self-governing (Kovach & Rosenstiel 2001, 2007).
This website is associated with the Ozarks News Journal television show produced by broadcast journalism students at Missouri State University. ONJ TV airs on Ozarks Public Television, Mediacom 24, and on this web site.
Our Publishing Policy
ONJ seeks to be a transparent news organization. All news, features, and blogs are open to public comment. The ONJ Facebook group is open for membership with no restrictions. We welcome reader participation and especially encourage news tips and reporting help.
ONJ regularly posts ongoing assignments on its Facebook group page.
Student blogs may contain opinion, but these contributions must conform to the best practices of opinion journalism, e.g. all opinion is backed up by reporting.
All staff are required to read The Elements of Journalism and to put its advice into practice.
The featured position at the top of the front page is for displaying news and feature packages from our four reporting teams. Only the best work makes it into the featured position. But the editor or publisher may move an individual blog post into the featured position when it is determined to have merit or to be of particular interest to the audience. Featuring a blog post does not indicate agreement by the editor, publisher, or staff members with any opinions expressed by the author of the featured blog post.
So are you using a standard WordPress implementation or have you added Buddypress or a User Registration plug-in to help manage your multiple authors?
Using standard WP. But I’ll check out Buddypress. Thanks!
I am thinking if such an initiative was present in Jacksonville FL. If it was, I would like to see students take up a news story that appeared in the day’s news paper and tackle it on their own. I would like the article to display how many hours the student worked on that story since an easy complaint from journalists is they didn’t have enough time.
It would not criticize the local newspaper but benchmark it and provide healthy competition.