Choose Your Own Media
Choose a news story told using one of the media types we have discussed-print, television,
or online and rework it to fit a different type of media. For example: You might choose a
podcast that covers a news story and transform that story that is told into a newspaper or
magazine article-or you might do the reverse!
Your task here is to keep the basics of the story intact, but to adapt it to the standards of the
new type of media. If you are moving from a 30-minute podcast to a 250-word newspaper
article, you're obviously going to need to decide what is most important and how to tell the
story effectively.
Submit the original story and your revised version, which should be no longer than 300
words or two minutes (if it's a recording, please also consult with your instructor about the
recording type you should use). Write a brief reflection (100 words) about what you think the
biggest challenge was for you as you tried to adapt the same story to a different type of
medium: