By Toga Tahir
After a long semester filled with productivity and hard work, Dr. Wala Fouda’s students are getting ready to take over the blog of College of Media and Mass Communication by a storm.
As the students have been intensively learning as well as conducting many editorial tasks in their Editing for Mass Media course, their final project of the course is to develop, conduct, and write vibrant stories that vary from feature stories and news stories to exclusive interviews with some of the college’s most accomplished faculty as well as students, where the best stories out of the class will have the chance to be published on the blog of CMMC.
CMMCThe 400-level course Editing for Mass Media is set to be a practical and collaborative course that relies on the students’ creativity in developing critical skills related to media writing and editing. The constructor of the course, Dr. Walaa Fouda, Assistant Professor, College of Media and Mass Communication is the person behind mentoring and guiding the students towards high and professional performance in all parts of the course. Her teaching styles revolve around categorizing all the aspects and types of mass media production then gradually relating them to different theories and skills of mass media editing. Thus, students get to develop all the skills to learn how to produce, edit and write various types of media. For instance, in one of the selected classes of the course, students get to dig deep into the work and role of newsrooms in news agencies, in which they are one of the main pillars of media professionals’ work. In addition, other than the numerous writing classes that the students have to attend and participate in as they show the progress of their writings, the course also tends to provide holistic coverage of the work of mass media, where different aspects of mass media work are taught, such as the way of conducting ethically based interviews with subjects, witnesses, and sources.
As we reach the final chapters of this spring semester of 2021, the students of Dr. Walaa are working towards implementing all that dense knowledge collected from their classes throughout the semester and putting it out into action on the blog. The takeover of the students is put out to introduce them to the experiences of the real world of editing for the mass media, where deadlines have to be met, stories have to be hunted for, and data collection of stories have to be made to publish professional stories. Stay tuned for all the exciting stories that will be published on the CMMC blog.
