ENG124

This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of gathering, analyzing, organizing, writing, and editing news for a mass audience reached by different but converging media. Students will be introduced to the techniques of reporting, including direct observation and interviewing as well as the use of online and hard-copy documents. Students also will develop journalistic reporting and writing skills transferable to a variety of platforms, with an emphasis on verifying information as well as writing to meet professional deadlines.