Students conceptualize, write, edit, design and publish two magazines using desktop technology. Students acquire newswriting and reporting skills by covering a range of news stories in a laboratory situation. Stress on deadline pressure, writing, interviewing and other reporting techniques. Students learn to be more sophisticated news consumers and writers by analyzing and critiquing major newspapers. Newswriting and reporting in Boston and surrounding communities.
Students cover working beats.
Each student meets individually with the professor once a week for intensive critiques of the reporter's work and discussions about further developing the beat. Lectures and discussion on specific journalistic techniques and news coverage analysis . Students develop experience in writing about science, technology and medicine for the consumer press. Review and analysis of contemporary coverage of science news and affairs through the study of major newspapers, magazines and other media outlets. Students seek news and design original stories, develop contacts and beats, and plan mini-documentary video productions.