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Good reporters read the newspaper.
I therefore expect that during this course you will regularly read local and national journalism, including newspapers, magazines, and electronic texts on the internet. We'll discuss this in more detail in class. Assigned class readings must be completed before the beginning of each assigned class period. You might be well-advised to keep two notebooks, one for class activities and another for reporting exclusively, but this is up to you. I have no format requirements for your notebooks, except that I strongly encourage you get in the habit of dating and labeling entries.