A company unveiled a new automated news retrieval and publishing system that will allow journalism professors to give their students a new way to break into the journalism career.
Breaking Into Journalism Co. announced the free system will allow its users to build a database of industry contacts and publish hundreds of news stories with their byline added.
The company said it is seeking more than 300 journalism students in high school, community colleges or universities to sign up for an intern program that would be comparable to working for the Associated Press.
A company representative said its automated publishing system sets up editorial guidelines and gives students assignments that cover more than 300 subject matters. The representative said it will give students a place to submit their stories for approval when they have finished their stories.
Once the stories are approved, the company said, the stories are automatically published to one or more online high school or high education outlets, which may include newspapers, magazines, blogs or any other type of online news portal.
"One of the most difficult problems for high school and college journalism programs is teaching students how to find a subject matter they like and showing them where to find stories to report on," said Robert Hoskins, Breaking into Journalism Co.'s CEO. "We've made that process simple. We researched the 315 most searched on news topics on the Internet and created retrievers that automatically fetch press releases and put them into news folders. Students simply pick the subject matter they want to specialize in and begin searching for press releases they want to turn into an actual news story."
Unlike most existing school journalism programs that focus on school related topics, Breaking Into Journalism Co.'s publishing system allows teachers and students to publish a newspaper or magazine that can compete directly with local, regional and national news outlets in a real world environment.
“We offer students the best opportunity to break into a journalism career by providing them with more than 315 subject matter news categories to cover,” Hoskins continued. “And if students want to add something that is outside the normal news categories, we can help them define their own special editorial niche. In one semester, a typical student can produce more than 300-400 news clips with their byline on it. No other news outlet can make that claim.”
Learning to write stories about products and services that customers are actively researching and buying is a valuable skill. The automated publishing system makes it possible to create a number of editorial items such as buyer’s guides, event calendars, product directories, and product and service awards.
In addition to journalism students, journalism schools that start these types of programs can also train many types of mass communications students that want to become advertising media representatives, public relations professionals, media relations experts, publishers and publication Web site designers.
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