Recent News Class Spotlights: Live Newsroom with Chris Snider and Jonathan Rogers

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Posted March 20, 2019

Half the battle of journalism is keeping up with the newest and most popular ways to share stories. Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook are all popular platforms for sharing podcasts, videos, webinars, and more recently, 360º photo and video content!

If you’re interested in using all the newest tools to help tell your story, Live Newsroom may be for you. Experience what it’s like to be in the action and seeking out the stories. Learn how to spread the news through photo, video, instagram stories and more.

Live Newsroom will be taught by Chris Snider and Jonathan Rogers. Chris serves as an assistant professor at Drake University and has a multitude of other projects like his magazine Juice and his history as a newspaper designer for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Baltimore Sun. Jonathan Rogers is an award-winning journalism adviser speaking nationally about preserving the student voice in the classroom. His passions include teaching how to write powerful non-fiction, blogs, and create effective video-storytelling.

Follow Chris and Jon on twitter to follow their work as we get closer and closer to camp!