J298 Data Journalism
Students in this course will be expected to become familiar with the use of data in order to produce stories with impact, authority and distinction. Data — large sets of information and numbers — are becoming increasingly available from public, private and social media sources. As a result, journalism organizations are looking to make use…
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Police Reporting and Media Narratives: To better understand the tensions between law enforcement and communities of color, the course would examine cops, courts and incarceration. It would acquaint students with the enigma of declining rates of violent crime when prison populations have risen. It would also look at police killings of unarmed suspects.
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J298 – Developing your Blockbuster Investigative Story
Your Blockbuster Investigation This is an intense year-long seminar that aims to help students conceive, execute and publish ambitious investigative journalism with the full support of the Investigative Reporting Program. Students are challenged to identify an investigative project they are passionate about and then they are given the editing, mentoring and financial support to do…
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J219 Picture and Sound – 8/26 – 12/2
J219 Picture & Sound is a required course for all second year shortform TV and documentary students. Classes are a combination of lecture and in-class workshop style exercises, and grades are based on attendance and quizzes. There are no outside assignments, but in class exercised will be expected to be uploaded to an online/review system…
Read MoreJ233 Advanced Coding Interactives
This course is an introduction to programming concepts as they relate to the journalism industry. The goal of this course is to equip students with a foundational computational literacy to construct interactive online stories such as data visualizations, infographics, maps, multimedia packages, games or other types of projects students may conceive. This course teaches students…
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J298 – Writing with Power
This course aims to develop and sharpen your writing in a small seminar environment. We’ll spend the first classes discussing voice and tone, clarity and brevity, pace and precision, dialogue and detail, with a novelist’s eye. Then we’ll turn the lens on your own work, using pieces you’re working on for other classes – whether those are…
Read MoreJ298 – War and Data: Telling Human Rights Stories Using Open Sources
Warriors murder civilians in the shadows. By their nature mass killings take place in war zones and other hard to reach places. Inaccessibility, lack of witnesses, conflicting stories: all of these help militaries and governments succeed in what they prefer to do, which is to lie and to deny. In human rights reporting confirmation is…
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