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Friday, September 27, 2013
An idea for a new journalism class
I think it would be cool if UNH offered a beat reporting class. I remember Lisa Miller talking about how her first job, at the Gloucester Times, was all about covering everything that happened in the town of Rockport. As their town correspondent, she attended the meetings, events and random happenings. Even though some classes touch on such reporting, it would be an exciting challenge to take a whole semester (or split it half and half so students would get to know two communities) covering a certain beat. They could either choose, or pick beat topics out of a hat, depending on what the professor decides. Students would be forced to get creative in finding stories when the obvious ones were exhausted. Thorough reporting and the time to actually form relationships with people in their environment would be great practice. Students could choose what platform they wanted to tell their stories on. Storify, Word Press, Blogger, or anything else they may know. Skills in these programs would be developed as well as the tools of photography, audio and video recording. This may sound a lot like the digital journalism class, but it could be made into a higher level journalism class in which students are given more free range in telling a story the way they want to.
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