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.
Feature Writing for Print and Digital Media
This practical workshop is designed to prepare you for writing and publishing feature articles.
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.
Podcast/Radio Reporting and Storytelling: A Crash Course in Audio
Learn everything you need to launch your own podcast or to begin a career in radio journalism.
Political Journalism Boot Camp
Learn the techniques that top political journalists use to craft investigative features, profiles, and breaking news stories.
Reporting, Researching, and Writing the News
Focus on the basic principles of news reporting with an emphasis on learning by doing.
Popular Art and Political Anxiety: Writing Arts Criticism Today
Write reviews of films, TV, and books that interpret and discuss pop culture as an expression of the current political climate.
Blogging for Journalists
Learn how to write effectively for the web and how to craft an original point of view.
Human Rights and Journalism
Study the historical and contemporary relationship between human rights and journalism, while working on a story of your own.
Legal and Ethical Issues in Journalism
This practical course examines complex issues and legal questions and offers working journalists a framework for ethical decision-making.
Producing the Broadcast Journalism Magazine Format
This hands-on production workshop gives you a chance to write and produce a news story in broadcast journalism “magazine” format.
Social Media for Journalists
Obtain a complete background in the newest tools needed to research and write the news and then to display and distribute content.
The Art of the Photo Essay
Learn the essentials of the photographic essay, including how to generate story ideas appropriate for the medium.
Writing Editorials, Commentary, and Opinion Blogs
Master the art of turning persuasive and compelling opinions and arguments into effective written pieces.