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Wednesday, October 15

Hofstra Journalism NewsHub Coverage All Day: NassauNews.org/news

On Wednesday, Oct. 15, the online journalism students of the School of Communication will be staffing the NewsHub in Dempster Hall to create a student-run converged news organization reporting on the events and activities surrounding the third and final Presidential Debate, hosted on our campus.

A team of some 45 journalism students and faculty volunteers will be using a variety of freely available Web 2.0 tools to livestream and liveblog the events of the day in the debut of a unique hybrid news product that approaches the cutting edge of innovation and builds on the foundational skills and knowledge gained as students in Hofstra’s accredited journalism program.

With a combination of graduate and undergraduate students working in teams, the NewsHub will serve as the nerve center for a student-led organization that will leverage a variety of tools to produce live and remote news reports from the campus and the surrounding area, focusing on the issues and reactions of college-age students, not only on the Hofstra campus, but around the country.

At the heart of the coverage will be a fact-checking and information monitoring group that will use social-networking applications like Twitter and Facebook to not only provide information but to also encourage and engage the viewing audience.

Debate programming will begin with a video streamcast on the NassauNews.org/news website approximately an hour before the 9 p.m. start of the debate with live and recorded reports from the campus and other locations. During the debate, the focus will be on a live blog with fact checking and related links flowing from the student information/research group, mixing with viewer comments and questions as well as real-time audience polling.

After the debate, Hofstra student journalists will report on reaction from the debate. The students are creating an issues-briefing wiki that will go live prior to the debate and live on afterwards, allowing the public to add more information to the more than 20 domestic and economic issues identified as key items on college-age voters’ minds in preparation for the poll. During the day of the debate, student reporters will be monitoring the campus, interviewing students and reporting from the scene with a mix of live video and recorded video packages, creating a livestream and an archive of news from this historic event on the Hofstra campus.

Journalism students will also staff an assignment desk, a new activity in the NewsHub, creating a calendar of events for the day and tracking local coverage opportunities for internal use by the classes and news organizations supporting Hofstra’s journalism program.

For more information, contact:
Journalism Assistant Professor Mo Krochmal
Telephone: 917-514-0197
Send an E-mail

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