Journalism
- Hones Multimedia Storytelling Skills
- Explores Traditional and Digital Media
- Develops Technical Skills
Over the past 25 years, journalism has experienced huge changes in the gathering, creation, and dissemination of news content. These cutting-edge courses ground you in the here and now of writing and producing features, breaking news, and multimedia stories. You will gain practical training in research and reporting, while building technical skills to produce strong narrative stories for a variety of media—newspapers, magazines, video, websites, blogs, podcasts, social media platforms, among others. Learn more about the Certificate in Journalism and Newswriting.
This Spring, study from anywhere in the world in the safety and comfort of your home through online or remote instruction.
Freelance Journalism: How to Pitch and Sell Stories
Learn how to hatch fresh story ideas that will draw editors’ attention and how to portray these ideas in winning ways.
Interviews and Profiles
Learn how to conduct effective interviews, fashion them into articles, and get them published.
Creating a Narrative Podcast
Acquire the training to launch your own story-driven podcast series, and leave the course with your own 15- to 20-minute pilot.
Introduction to Spanish Journalism
Improve your vocabulary, grammar, and grasp of Spanish slang by reading and discussing news articles in Spanish.
Writing About Health and Beauty for Online Publications and Magazines
This nonfiction writing course will give you the tools to write and sell health and beauty stories for a robust and growing market.
Writing Parenthood: Writing for a Growing Market
Produce a polished, ready-to-publish personal essay or hybrid essay/reported piece about parenthood for a growing market.
Advanced Podcast Workshop
As a self-motivated emerging podcaster with editing experience a background in audio storytelling, get feedback on your work-in-progress.
Podcasting, Radio Reporting, and Storytelling
If you want to create a podcast or work in radio, learn everything you need to get started in this beginner’s workshop.
Multimedia Storytelling
Gain a comprehensive overview of multimedia storytelling, a crucial part of messaging across a diverse range of industries from film to marketing.
Feature Writing for Print and Digital Media
This practical workshop is designed to prepare you for writing and publishing feature articles.
Newswriting: Writing Above the Fold
Learn the central aspects of newswriting, from crafting a lede to organizing complex information into truthful, objective, and accurate prose.
Writing Midlife and Beyond
Learn how to shape your personal experiences and reporting into a compelling, publishable essay or feature for the midlife and beyond market.
Social Media for Storytellers
As a creative professional, learn to harness the power of social media with easily executed strategies and tactics.
Journaling: Writing Today for Tomorrow
Explore of the history of journaling with gain practical guidance in developing a journaling approach that is personally and creatively fulfilling.
Entertainment Journalism
Raise your arts IQ and gain a solid understanding of how to write publishable articles that inform and entertain and can be pitched to major outlets.