The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-05
NEW COURSE IN JOURNALISM.
Students Trained at Madison for News
paper Work.

MADISON, Wis, July 3.-The
training of students for newspaper
paper work is a new field of activity
which the University of Wisconsin en-
tered upon the past year, and which
is to be developed and extended next
year.
While there have always been several
students in the university preparing for
journalistic work no arrangement has
been made for giving them prac-
teal training until the beginning of the
newspaper writing was offered in the
English department, and was elected
by some thirty students interested in
journalism.
AS a result of the enthusiasm mani
tested bv the students in this new work
a University Press club was organized
with membership of fifty. For next
wear a four years course has been out
lined for students preparing them
selves for a journalistic career.
Gives Practical Training.
The course in newspaper writing Of
fered this year by Professor Willard
G. Bleyer who has had experience in
newspaper work. has been designed to
give the students practical training
in reporting. The members of the
class have been assigned to cover"
local events of various kinds and have
turned in the reports to the instructor
to be edited and criticized,
The students have been given prac-
tee in reporting everything from foot
ball games to political speeches, and
from weddings to fires. The members
of the class were required to inter-
view students, members of the faculty,
and almuni on such timely topics as
the football situation and the honor
system of Wisconsin, and to prepare
these interviews for publication.
The news reports of interest were
published from time to time in the
Daily Cardinal and the local papers.
The course also included the prepara-
ton of special articles on interesting
subjects connected with university
life, suitable for publication in maya
zine sections of daily newspapers. AZ
ter the best Of these feature stories"
had been criticized and revised the
students submitted them to the edi-
tors of daily papers of the state, and a
number of them were published, some
with illustrations made from photo
graphs secured by the student report
ers. BY these means all the aspiring
student journalists We're able to see
some of their best work in print
Students Edit Newspaper.
In order to give the students insight
into the workings of a newspaper Of
flee, the class was organized as a staff
of daily newspaper in the fall and
prepared lot pupllCatlOn 1Our-pdg6
paper with ten columns of reading
matter. One of the students. acting
as city editor. made the assignments
on the preceding day. and the report
ers appeared at the office with the ma
terial for their stories at o'clock the
following morning.
After each reporter had been told
by the editors how much of a report
was desired upon the topic to which he
had been assigned. he proceeded to
prepare his STORY" These reports
were edited by the copy readers, who
wrote headlines and prepared them for
publication. At noon all necessary
copy had been set up and the man.
aging editor and his assistants pro-
ceeded to make up the paper, the Uni
versity of Wisconsin News as il was
called, which, in addition to news re-