Telling Your Story Through Journalism

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Our life experiences are worth sharing. This course will focus on how personal stories can contribute to global conversations about current events, culture, trends, and the human experience. Through reading influential pieces of personal narrative from contemporary writers and masters of the historical tradition of the essay, we will create our own powerful personal stories that we can use to connect meaningfully with a variety of audiences in a range of mediums. We'll examine best practices for sharing personal stories such as blogging platforms, social media projects, podcasting and the column sections of top publications. Our stories will include thoughtful language and carefully curated images. Students can except to learn multimedia storytelling tactics (audio, video, photography) that make their stories engage, entertain, and endear readers.