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Journalism

WRIT 049 | High School Course

In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of modern journalism: reporting, interviewing, writing techniques, censorship issues, page design, and broadcast journalism.

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Course Outline

Unit 1: What Exactly Is News?
Unit 2: Who Is in the News?
Unit 3: Where Do I Start?
Unit 4: When It All Flows Together
Unit 5: How the Stories are Different
Unit 6: Why Do I Have to Paste Up the Dummy?
Unit 7: Unit 1: Broadcast Journalism
Unit 8: Where Do We Go from Here?

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