Students learn how to write for this new interactive medium, integrate video, audio, text and graphics into a story, and design and operate Web publications.
Classes also explore the many troubling ethical issues that the Internet poses for journalism.
To keep up with the latest concepts in online publishing, the program draws heavily on the experience of people working at new media companies in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco's Multimedia Gulch. Recent lecturers and teaching fellows at the school have come from online publications such as Macworld, ZDNet, Wired News, Salon, PC World Online, and the Web editions of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Reuters news service. Through these courses and at internships at local new media companies, our students have direct contact with the industry leaders who are shaping the future of this new communications medium. New media course offerings include introductory and advanced new media publishing, digital multimedia reporting, computer assisted reporting and reporting on the Internet and high technology. The school also co-sponsors a unique multidisciplinary class in which students from several schools on the UC campus do case studies of the business and journalism strategies of local online publications.