Digital Publishing
Description
Digital Publishing builds essential technical skills for success in today’s digital world.
Students learn to use modern digital media tools to create, publish, and share content, gaining real-world experience similar to the skills journalists and organizations rely on to communicate effectively.
- Dual Enrollment – Scottsdale Community College dependent on Instructor Credentials
- Two-Year Program Completion
- Google UX Design Professional Certificate or Adobe ACP exam of choice
- Technical Standards: www.azed.gov/cte/gwd
News analysts, reporters, and journalists typically do the following:
- Research topics that an editor or news director has assigned to them
- Develop relationships with experts and contacts who provide tips and leads on stories or articles
- Interview people who have information, analysis, or opinions about a story or article
- Analyze and interpret information to increase audience understanding of the news
- Write stories or articles for newspapers, magazines, or websites and create scripts to be read on television or radio
- Review stories or articles for accuracy, style, and grammar
- Update stories or articles as new information becomes available
- Investigate new story or article ideas and pitch ideas to editors
In May 2024, the median annual wages for news analysts, reporters, and journalists in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:
| Media streaming distribution services, social networks, and other media networks and content providers | $77,460 |
|---|---|
| Television broadcasting stations | 65,670 |
| Radio broadcasting stations | 56,230 |
| Newspaper publishers | 46,640 |
Courses Offered
Course ID: 3602-3603
Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Semester(s): 2
Course Credit: 1.0
Graduation Requirement: Elective
Learn and practice valuable skills using real-world, cutting-edge computer hardware and software applications, as well as media gathering equipment. Learn photojournalism, page layout, graphic design, media management, product distribution and delivery, marketing, and specialized equipment operation and maintenance to create professional-grade media products.
Fee required: see Fee Schedule
Course ID: 3604-3605
Grade(s): 10, 11, 12
Semester(s): 2
Course Credit: 1.0
Graduation Requirement: Elective
Prerequisite: Digital Publishing I
Apply advanced skills in photography, editing, graphic design, media management, and marketing to communicate ideas to the world. Innovative projects and real-world industry level portfolio creation are the capstone of this pathway. Students may seek industry certification in several areas of their choice while completing this course, including any of the Adobe Certified Associate Specialist Certifications (ACA) and/or Google UX Design Certificate.
Fee required: see Fee Schedule
Career & Technical Student Organization (CTSO):
SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers, and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce, emphasizing total quality at work: high ethical standards, superior work skills, life-long education, and pride in the dignity of work. SkillsUSA Arizona has over 15,000 members and over 3,000 members at State Championships.
