Advanced Newspaper

This course is last in a series designed to provide the student with the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to produce a newspaper - both print and online. The course is taught as a lab in the newsroom. Students will work to deadline, editing copy on Macintosh computers, placing and manipulating electronic and electronically scanned images using QuarkXPress and Photoshop software. Students will also write editorial and opinion pieces, news and features, headlines and cutlines. Students will assume management positions as editor-in-chief, managing editor, section editors, senior reporters, copy editors, online editor, photo editor or art director.