Lead Faculty: Dr. Sara-Ellen L. Amster
Course Description
This class covers the organization of news stories and their preparation for newspaper, online, TV and radio formats and the fundamentals of news journalism, including standards of objectivity, fairness and accuracy. The course focuses on how journalists report the material they ultimately need for their finished stories and provides students with the opportunity to understand what counts as news and how to write focused news stories on deadline. Students learn to identify the structure and basic ingredients of news and master different types of leads and such style conventions as the inverted pyramid, the nutgraph and other non-fiction storytelling techniques.