They use a computer to write stories about governing bodies, zoning and planning boards, school boards, budgets, arrests, hearings, arraignments, indictments and trials. Students cover a local community and write various meeting stories. Designed to develop competence in the writing of features, editorials, sports, reviews and columns, the course offers students ample opportunity to become familiar with each journalistic form through writing. Students get started as free-lance magazine article writers by conceiving article ideas, interviewing, researching and writing. The course provides instruction in adjusting style and slant to reach potential readers.
Students learn to sharpen writing, resolve clarity problems, and add vigor to writing.
The course analyzes free-lance markets. This course covers the practices and techniques used by photojournalists on modern American newspapers. Students take, develop and edit photographs on a weekly basis. Weekly laboratory assignments are required. This course focuses attention on design, layout and make-up of brochures, magazine and newspaper pages, newsletters and advertisements.