Professor Miller devoted last week’s Online Journalism class to learning more about the specific roles in each group. He delivered his lecture through a brief-but-effective PowerPoint presentation that he titled “Collaborative Journalism”. The PowerPoint presentation includes helpful descriptions of each distinct role in the groups.

I am a member of the Fairfax Transportation group (aka The Transporters), and I am acting as the data journalist for our first story. This means that “I want to tell the truth behind the facts,” according to Miller’s lecture. Miller included useful tips in his PowerPoint for discovering that truth, including this handy flowchart.

Paul Bradshaw, onlinejournalismblog.com

I’m going to treat Miller’s “Collaborative Journalism” PowerPoint as the Rosetta stone for understanding each individual role this semester. For this story I’m a data journalist, but for the next story I could be a network journalist, multimedia journalist, editor, or community manager. The PowerPoint helps make that transition easier.

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