Digital Journalism II explores how online and mobile news stories are reported, produced, and distributed on various digital platforms. Students will learn what it takes to create high-quality, innovative, multi-platform stories while adhering to the traditional standards of news judgment, accuracy, fairness and truth. Students will study and analyze award-winning online news stories to gain insight into reporting and storytelling techniques. They will learn how to generate enterprising story ideas through original reporting, develop a “digital-first” workflow for reporting and news content creation, gain an understanding of the unique characteristics of text, photos, audio, video and graphics and when to use each to present a story in the most compelling manner, and explore innovative ways to adapt traditional news story formats for online and mobile audiences. In the end, students will complete several portfolio-worthy or publishable news stories. In the past, student work from this course has been published in NJ.com, WHYY.org, South Jersey Times and South Jersey Magazine.