IN-DEPTH REPORTING

JOURN 335

Basic reporting for print and electronic media. Bring together technical and conceptual skills by creating a variety of print, audio, and web-based news stories on a current public issue.

JOURN 420

Techniques of investigative and long-form enterprise reporting. Includes extensive reporting in the field and a final project.

JOURN 456

Develop skills needed to conduct professional-level journalism and strategic communication in long-form video. Produce documentary pieces of covering a contemporary topic of local or regional interest and complete other exercises in video analysis, composition and production.

JOURN 426

Provides advanced, targeted instruction in reporting that pays close attention to neighborhoods or very small communities (subcommunities), also known as hyperlocal reporting. These small communities can be defined by geographic boundaries or boundaries of shared topical interest. Locate community-based reporting's place in the larger media ecology of mainstream media (newspapers, TV, weekly papers, magazines, independent websites, etc.), and investigate how local journalism's place in changing media ecologies helps (or discourages) people from becoming active citizens in a democracy.

JOURN 405

Creative elements of non-fiction story telling to develop skills necessary for writing across the journalistic spectrum, from newspapers to magazines to books.