JRN 3369 Investigative Reporting and Feature Writing
This class is intended to teach the methods and strategies of effective investigative journalism and the craft of long and short form nonfiction narrative writing. As an investigative reporter, you will learn to access public records, gather and sort data, conduct interviews, handle hostile interview subjects and develop themes in your reporting and to write clearly and effectively about what your investigation has shown. As a writer, you will learn the craft of storytelling, developing themes and characters, pacing your piece, self-editing and revision. You will try to write beautifully as well as effectively. You will learn the reporting techniques that inform this writing -- from observing details to interviewing for depth and meaning in a subject’s story. In all things, you will place accuracy and fairness as first principles.
Offered
As needed