Editing Business News

Catalog description

This course explores the different responsibilities of editors, including planning, assigning, doing a first edit, coordinating related stories, packaging the news, planning follow-ups and more. It asks students to consider the different audiences of different media and of general-interest, business and trade coverage, and it sharpens editing skills, enabling students to make stories accurate and sharp, improve the language, write headlines and photo captions, and make ethical and legal judgments where necessary.