Gamification to Teach Journalism Students How To Properly Use AP Style

Game Creation Procedure

Development of this game was a great experience for me. I developed this for journalism students a journalist at a newspaper.  The player will review and proofread the stories before going to press and will responsible for correcting all errors before get published. The game will allow player to be promoted as he/she masters various rules of AP style and tackle the level of difficulties. During the development of the game, I consulted various guides and styles of AP style and media law (Goldstein, 2006). Imagine coming home from a boring class or coming home in the evening from work and you are really tired, and you just want something that relax you and take your mind off things, then this game is just what you need to unwind. This will not invoke creativity but also give its players opportunity to be perfect in their career.

Aim and Goals

This game is meant for students who want to pursue a career in journalism. I had them in mind when coming up with this idea. It is based on the belief that struggle and practice can make you perfect. Apart from that, this game is also meant to cheer you up when you are bored or stressed out and bring out your hidden talent.

Octalysis

Epic meaning and calling

My intention in coming up with this game was to be a part of something big. I want to capture the attention of video game lovers all over the world. This game engages the player and good feedback from one player will attract others to it. In this game, I begin with a brief introduction - "It’s your chance to change the world!” This captures the attention of new players and motivates them to want to discover more about it.

Narrative

Upon being a winner, you are crowned as the best journalist. Your role will be to lead other journalist to making the world a better place by covering stories perfectly found in society. This is explained to the player once he/she has successfully get published. This directly challenges the investigative journalists to be good in what they do.

Motivators

Extrinsic Motivators

At the end of the game, the online game play services compare your score with other players who have played before. The higher your score, the higher your chances of being famous in what you do. In the real world, it is a challenge to the students and professionals who aspire to be investigative journalists, teaching them that they have to be thorough in what they do, in particular when gathering information.

Intrinsic Motivators

I love video games, that is why I decided to come up with my own game. I wanted to display my creative ability to the world. In addition, if I successfully manage to impress the game players, then I might get an income from this.

Notes on Future Upgrades

There is still more I would like to add to this game. For instance, if I had money today, I would improve on my game graphics. I would hire some experts to check on the areas where it needs to be upgraded. I will work hand in hand with these experts to improve and fine tune my game. At this stage, I will take my time in coming up with a version that has all the features I want. With only the few feedbacks, I have received so far, I see a bright future for this game. Some institutions were even proposing that it should be integrated in their learning sessions.

The Best Part of the Game

This game is a fine piece of art, and I admit, I do enjoy it. This game engages you as a player because you are always being thorough when looking for a perfect story. In addition, there is a level of curiosity about what comes next after winning. This is what drives the player to win the game. It is my first design, and it looks like I have done an incredible job. It is a morale booster for me in that it shows that I have got what it takes to come up with a video game.

Is It Really Fun?

Absolutely, this game is real fun. It has some really entertaining features that will definitely blow up your mind.

References

Goldstein, N. (2006). AP Associated Press stylebook and briefing on media law. Associated Pr.

Strategy Jobs in Newspaper Industry - Presentation and Evaluation Assessment Briefing

My colleagues presented presentations on British film industry, Retail banking and Airport industry. My presentation was about UK Newspaper industry, which I tried to present in well manner. I discussed well on strategy jobs, with a good and clear voice. I was confident and tried to express myself well about elements of the industry.

UK Newspaper industry prints about seven million papers a day. Various popular stories have been published here, but the backbone of the UK newspaper industry are the strategists. Strategy jobs play a key role in conveying stories to the readers. Strategy jobs help in the growth of the paper and maximize the profit (Franklin, 2005). It consists of Administration to HR and marketing to selling the products. Strategy jobs deal cop with competitors and stand out their product from the other competitors.

HR department is responsible to find the talent and to promote them according to their capability (Noe et al., 2006). It is the duty of the department to train fresh journalist well and bring out their maximum ability. Editorial jobs require a higher level of management skills. This department is responsible for the frame strategies and increases sales. Account department is responsible for planning, budgeting and monitoring of funds (Rosie et al., 2004). Admin department control overall management from equipment to handling the staff. Strategists in the newspaper industry are used to track the important events, setting the industry, etc. Strategist decides what the requirement of the people is and what should be printed to pass on the public. Either it is a story about threat regarding terrorism or there is a need of climate control story, a strategist decides medium and the best time to publish a story.

Strategists in newspaper outlets such as The Sun, Daily Mirror and Daily Mail are responsible for improving the sales of the newspaper while the editors ensure that quality content is provided. When it comes to reporting climate issues, fashion and investigative journalism, UK newspapers have a good reception all over the world for their quality content (Mance, 2016). My focus on the UK newspaper was also on the responsibility they have of tracking industry trends instead on focusing to create the trends (Papacharissi & de Fatima Oliveira, 2008). The UK newspaper industry is responsible on what should reach the public such as reports on terrorism threats and climate control. However, it is the role of the strategists to determine how such information is presented to the public for reading. It is the best practices of the strategists that the UK newspaper is known as the best in the world. Sensitivity of important issue require importance and without, a professional strategist this sort of news stories can be handled wrongly (Hansen, Neuzil & Ward, 1998). Thus it is crystal clear that without strategist newspaper industry can’t be grown perfectly.

The UK newspaper industry have editorial jobs that require high management skills. I highlighted that it is importance for the industry to ensure that editorial jobs are designed in a manner that will attract new investment and advertisements. The editorial jobs should also comprise of frame strategists and be assigned deadlines so as to increase sales and attract more readers. I highlighted that the UK newspaper industry should recruit and train journalists that are more likely to bring more effectiveness to their designated assignments.

I highlighted that the administration of the UK newspaper industry should have high process knowledge and personnel that are highly experienced. It is the role of the admiration to check on the press and also ensure that equipment’s within the firm are well maintained are functioning effectively. I also highlighted how it is important for admiration to take key decisions such as managing employee feuds, choosing appropriate spare parts and managing threats from third parties.

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Carvalho, A. and Burgess, J., 2005. Cultural circuits of climate change in UK broadsheet newspapers, 1985–2003. Risk analysis, 25(6), pp.1457-1469.

Fisher, A., 2011. 6 Career-changing strategies that work. Fortune.com. [Online] Available at: http://fortune.com/2011/10/19/6-career-changing-strategies-that-work/. [Accessed 7 March 2017].

Franklin, B. ed., 2005. Local journalism and local media: Making the local news. Routledge.

Hansen, K.A., Neuzil, M. and Ward, J., 1998. Newsroom topic teams: Journalists' assessments of effects on news routines and newspaper quality. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 75(4), pp.803-821.

Harcup, T. and O'neill, D., 2001. What is news? Galtung and Ruge revisited. Journalism studies, 2(2), pp.261-280.

Mance, H., 2016. UK newspapers: Rewriting the story. Financial Times. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.ft.com/content/0aa8beac-c44f-11e5-808f-8231cd71622e. [Accessed 7 March 2017].

Noe, R.A., Hollenbeck, J.R., Gerhart, B. and Wright, P.M., 2006. Human resource management: Gaining a competitive advantage.

Papacharissi, Z. and de Fatima Oliveira, M., 2008. News frames terrorism: A comparative analysis of frames employed in terrorism coverage in US and UK newspapers. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 13(1), pp.52-74.

Rosie, M., MacInnes, J., Petersoo, P., Condor, S. and Kennedy, J., 2004. Nation speaking unto nation? Newspapers and national identity in the devolved UK. The Sociological Review, 52(4), pp.437-458