Interviewing and information-gathering skills are developed. The objective is publication with research of magazine markets. Associated Press style. Students produce weekly feature articles based on their ideas. Emphasis on student initiative and writing skills, including analysis of the best of American journalism.
Consistent productivity is tested.
Associated Press style. Emphasis on writing opinion for newspaper and electronic media and discussion of editorial policy making, the means of persuasion and the roles of syndicated and local columns, editorial cartoons, letters to the editor, and journals of opinion. A workshop in which students receive editing and headline-writing experience of the type they would receive in a daily newspaper newsroom. Students study and utilize a wide variety of newspaper layout-makeup styles in this workshop. Speed, accuracy, and imagination are combined to produce attractive, readable page designs.