Advanced Digital Reporting

Catalog description

Advances students' reporting techniques, journalistic storytelling skills and editorial decision making. Students refine mastery of lede, inverted pyramid, feature, enterprise and opinion writing; develop and sustain complex beats; integrate diverse sources, data and public records; and construct narratives that demonstrate depth, context and original insight. Emphasizes ethical reasoning, evidentiary standards, rigorous fact checking and strategic problem solving to produce authoritative, timely and accurate journalism.