Course Code: JRNL 250
Academic Year: 2025-2026
This reporting course is designed to prepare students to engage with many different communities as they cover news. Building on previous term discussions it places an emphasis on understanding bias and racism as students continue to explore the needs of diverse news consumers and to better reflect the communities they serve. students will further develop the skills necessary to contribute responsible and accountable journalism for a community. Students will complete the preparation and research required of a junior reporter including researching a specific community and its news requirements developing a file of contacts, archivded articles and ideas to enable them to pitch stories suitable for publication.