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Intermediate Reporting/Newswriting

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  • Intermediate Reporting/Newswriting
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This course is a continuation of the introductory newswriting/reporting courses and focuses on coverage of public affairs beats, including local and regional government, police, courts, and school and city boards. It includes both on- and off-campus reporting and writing/news presentation for a variety of news purposes and through multiple platforms.

  • Enterprise reporting
  • Covering courts
  • Covering police
  • Covering city councils, school boards and other local governmental bodies
  • Open meeting laws, public records and freedom of information requests
  • Other media law concepts: libel and privacy
  • Writing for various publication formats: print, online, multimedia, broadcast, and public relations
  • Producing stories through audio, video and other multimedia formats
  • Human, paper and electronic/database sources of news
  • Interviewing
  • Copy editing
  • Writing under deadline
  • Writing long form articles
  • AP Style
  • Ethics codes and practices
  • Using social media as a reporting tool

At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

  • Report and write multiple on- and off-campus public affairs-type stories, such as coverage of local or regional government, public safety, courts and education
  • Produce at least one major assignment utilizing basic multimedia skills, such as taking a photograph or capturing an audio/video interview, and/or employing social media or other emerging technology tools
  • Write stories under deadline pressure
  • Examine the basic concepts and techniques used in broadcast/webcast news and public relations writing
  • Locate and use diverse human, paper and electronic sources
  • Identify and apply fundamental media law concepts, such as libel and privacy rights, and basic freedom of information tools, including public records and open meeting laws
  • Employ editing techniques and use journalistic style
  • Apply professional ethics codes and practice 
  • Read and analyze current events news

Reporting assignments/projects across multiple platforms
Quizzes/Exams
Critiques
Peer critiques
Adherence to professional protocols (meeting deadlines, attendance, adherence to ethics)

Grassroots Journalism: A Practical Manual by Eesha Williams

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