Discussion leaders are expected to offer a brief critical analysis of the week's readings and to raise provocative questions to promote discussion. Please make copies of your proposals for your classmates and the instructor before your class presentations. Your profile and news feature proposals should include your target audience, main theme, specific examples to support or illustrate the theme and human and written sources. In addition, your in-depth news story proposal should contain the story's meaning and broader implications and possible recommendations or solutions. In addition, any in-depth story team should indicate the role that each team member will play in the process.
Progress reports .
Provide copies for your classmates and the instructor. You will have a week to review student stories selected to be critiqued. You will be expected to provide specific criticism of them according to the evaluation criteria stated in this syllabus. This seminar focuses on researching and writing substantive stories or series of related stories for a newspaper, magazine, television newscast, documentary film or online site. Your stories may deal with any newsworthy topic of interest to a general audience.