J298 – Audio Capstone
J298 – Science, Climate Change and the Environment
J298 – On the Eve of a New Cold War? Reporting on America Abroad
J242 Renegades, Underdogs, Madmen: The magazine profile
J298 – Audio Capstone
J298 – Video for the Web
J298 Video for the Web This course is designed for students not taking J283, but want to take an entry-level video production class. It is for students whose aspirations may be to focus on a medium of journalism like writing, audio, multimedia, photography, or some other form, but don’t want to leave the journalism school…
Read MoreJ298 – Narrative Capstone
This is a course designed expressly for second-year students on the narrative track. The aims of the course are to help narrative students troubleshoot reporting and writing challenges; develop winning pitches for their stories; compile portfolios; and prepare for the job market. We will workshop stories and pitches, meet with editors, and cover strategies for…
Read MoreHow Amtrak Trains Became One Retired Traveler’s Sanctuary During the Pandemic
This story appeared in Travel and Leisure on October 11, 2021. In the early hours of a cool morning in October 2020, the Cardinal traced a creek through the outskirts of Cincinnati and lumbered into Union Terminal. The enormous and echoing train station was nearly deserted. For months, as death spread and the world watched desperately…
Read More‘It makes a humongous difference’: Lack of Wi-Fi in city SROs deepens residents’ isolation
(Pictured Above: Jack Huck, 72, uses an Android phone, but has no internet access from his longtime room in the Winton Hotel, a single-room-occupancy residence in San Francisco. The Wi-Fi gap leaves many people isolated. Photo by Nick Otto/Special to The Chronicle) This story appeared in print and e-edition of The San Francisco Chronicle on…
Read MoreJ298 How to be an Editor
Narrative first, then audio, then multimedia/doc/video
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