EXCO 150 - JournalismCo

1 credit
Journalism has fundamentally changed over the past quarter century. Sound bites are shorter, cynicism is higher, and it’s more and more difficult to make a profit. With the thinning out of daily and weekly newspapers across the country, student journalists have begun to fill the gaps, doing important work in holding their community accountable, even if they’re only a part of that community for four years. In Oberlin, the only weekly newspaper is The Oberlin Review, after The Oberlin News Tribune closed its downtown office and merged with three other Lorain County newspapers a few years back. In this class, we will look at the unique challenges and advantages of student and local journalism, as well as trying our own hands at journalistic interviewing, writing, and story finding. Whether you’ve written for the Review or another student publication in the past, or if you have zero journalism experience, this class will help you jump into local reporting and hone your journalistic instincts. You do NOT need any previous experience in journalism to enroll. This class will be easiest if you have access to a device that can record audio in an interview such as a smartphone, tablet, or recorder, but we can definitely work around this if needed.

Kayla Kim
kkim3@oberlin.edu
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