International Reporting

Catalog description

This course will introduce students to international reporting and the work of foreign correspondents, starting with coverage of New York’s immigrant communities and immigrants' ties to the lands from which they came, and including the world of international organizations, diplomats, and multinational corporations based in New York. Students will do some reporting overseas via phone or Skype. Students will examine some major issues facing countries across the globe—refugees and migration, climate change, women’s rights, public health, and economic development—and find ways to report on those topics in New York. In this hands-on course, students will report and write/produce three main stories throughout the semester, in addition to completing other assignments.SPECIAL RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS: The Journalism Department will supply cameras, audio recorders, and any accessories needed to complete assignments, using a sign-out procedure. (Students are welcome to work with their own equipment.)