The full course lasts 3 months (12 weeks), 16 classes!
master classes on Saturdays from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m.
- integration into the editorial office, 3 months of practice
- excursion to the leading mass media.
In a group of 10-15 people.
And an additional bonus 17th class, Journalism and PR + a guided tour of a leading media outlet.
Every week (on Saturdays) – intensive classes, the rest of the time – homework, consultations by phone, e-mail and other means of communication are available around the clock!
The course consists of 16 lecture-seminar classes and one field trip to a local radio station.
During the course, the listeners will do their homework. Some of them will be devoted to formulating topics of future articles. Some of them are devoted to actually writing the articles. The best of these articles may make it into the main newsfeed on the newspaper’s Web site and into its print issue.
Each article will be graded on points by the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, class teachers, and the local newspaper’s journalists and readers. Also, these articles will be discussed in class. The articles with the maximum number of votes will be rewarded with discounts on journalism school tuition.
Completion of homework is strictly desirable. Please click here for homework topics.
At the end of the course students receive a certificate of training.
Course topics (sections):
- Ways to develop modern journalism.
- Genres of journalism.
- IThe news as the main type of journalistic material.
- A practical exercise in writing informational materials.
- The journalistic text.
- Reportage – how to portray reality.
- Interview: how many secrets a journalist can learn.
- Review: how to tell everything in a nutshell.
- How to prepare information for infographics.
- The problems of a journalist on the job.
- How to get a job in the media.
- The basics of text editing.
- Basics of newspaper and magazine layout and design.
- Electronic media.
- Managing a newsroom.
- Optional lesson – an excursion to the radio.
Recording by phone: 580-382-0200