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.
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.
Podcasting: Creating Interview and Conversation Shows
Acquire the skills you need to develop and launch your own podcast featuring interviews or conversation.
Podcasting, 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.
Navigating the Business of Podcasting
Explore opportunities to support your podcast through sponsorships, and discuss ways to increase distribution and discoverability.
Feature Writing for Print and Digital Media
This practical workshop is designed to prepare you for writing and publishing feature articles.
Reporting, Researching, and Writing the News
Focus on the basic principles of news reporting with an emphasis on learning by doing.
Political Journalism Boot Camp
Learn the techniques that top political journalists use to craft investigative features, profiles, and breaking news stories.
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.