It examines this evolving press in terms of its role in issues of public policy, gender, race and culture, thus providing an insight into the roots of contemporary American journalism. Close reading and writing assignments. Diverse images of journalists are followed from early colonial America to today. A Jrl 364Z and 365Z are the writing intensive versions of A Jrl 364 and 365. Editing and writing exercises and class discussion will grapple with what makes something news and what is the clearest way to express that to the readers.
Students edit their own work and each other's.
For the final project, students propose and design a new magazine. This course focuses on digital journalism, including such subjects as desktop publishing, writing HTML, and creating and maintaining Websites. This workshop will introduce students to a variety of functions and writing activities found in modern public relations, such as managing internal and external communications, identifying appropriate audiences, developing plans for public relations campaigns, writing press releases and other documents, handling communications in a crisis situation, and managing media relations. May repeated for credit. Students work for one semester on a newspaper, magazine, radio or television station, or with government, business, or public affairs publication.