J219 Associate Producer
This is a four week course: January 23, January 30th, February 7th and February 14th The Associate Producer is a crucial job in any documentary and long-form video production. The AP is called upon to fulfill a wide range of duties: reporting, logistical planning, budget management, archival acquisition, organizing deliverables, and managing personalities—and each one has…
Read MoreJ298 Workshop: The one day, turnaround story.
If you plan on working at a daily news site, the quick turnaround story is going to be your bread and butter – especially so in your first few years of reporting when you will be the low person on the totem pole. The ability to do these 750-1000 word stories well, will determine how…
Read MoreJ298 How to be an Editor
This course is designed to be a tasting platter for the aspiring print or online editor, or anyone curious about the job. It’s also a great course for writers who want to learn how editors think, and use those skills to make their own work better. Almost anyone can read a piece and tell that…
Read MoreJ298 San Quentin Editing
The San Quentin News Editing Project gives student journalists hands-on experience inside a prison newsroom to help publish the award-winning San Quentin News, the only newspaper of its kind in the country. Now entering its seventh year of existence, the editing class has not only sharpened the editing and writing skills of many Berkeley students,…
Read MoreJ220 Intro to Coding
This is a class that teaches students how to report, produce, and construct multifaceted news packages for both mobile and desktop. Students will work in teams to pitch and report on in-depth stories using a variety of media — text, photos, video, graphics, interactives — and learn how to design a longform story in a…
Read MoreJ298 Data Journalism
Students in this course will be introduced to the concept of data driven journalism with a strong focus on its use in investigative journalism. They will explore ways to obtain data, use tools to analyze it and learn how to deploy it in their work. They will be introduced to basic concepts in downloading data, making public record requests…
Read MoreJ298 Story Structures
In this class, we’ll learn about story architecture – how to craft your material to give it tone, meaning and style, and how to choose a structure that best matches your materials, reporting constraints and artistic intentions. In our 15 weeks together, we’ll examine 13 commonly-used structures to understand how they are constructed and what…
Read MoreJ219 MINI: Sound Design
This is a 6 week mini class, 9/24 – 10/29
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