News Practicum

Catalog description

News Practicum is a professionally oriented course for students who have mastered basic news writing and interviewing skills to produce stories for professional news outlets. COMM 416 News Practicum (3) This is a course in which students employ skills they developed in previous classes including: reporting, writing and working in collaboration with editors to develop a variety of short and long stories that are designed to be used in professional publications. In the course of reporting stories, students will work independently, using sources ranging from first responders to local government officials and experts, to gather information that they will use writing their stories. Students will turn in multiple drafts to the instructor, who will work with them to edit the stories in preparation for publication. Part of the course will include post-publication review of the stories to discuss techniques and how to improve upon them.