Overview
Description
Learn to report, write and produce newsworthy stories in a variety of genres using text and multimedia elements for multiple platforms.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Journalism major or minor.
JOUR 208
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): JOUR 208; Journalism major or minor.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Restrictions
Journalism major or minor.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- develop story ideas on newsworthy topics that reflect diverse viewpoints, pitch ideas to an editor and build a detailed reporting plan.
- conduct in-person interviews with strangers and quote from those interviews in an accurate and engaging way.
- produce multimedia stories combining text, photography, data visualization, audio and video.
- report and write in a variety of news genres in a concise, accurate and organized way, understanding the various roles implied by these genres.
- use social media to report and distribute news stories.
- analyze investigative news stories and contribute to a team investigative project.