Data journalism syllabus: From numeracy to visualization and beyond
This syllabus offers faculty a guide for teaching basic data journalism skills, including statistical and visualization techniques, over a 13-week semester.
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Syllabus: Reporting race, gender and diversity in America
Semester-long course on how to fairly and ethically cover diverse communities, which can often include not only race and ethnicity, but also religion, sexual orientation, national origin and more.
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Business reporting: Semester-long course on how to develop compelling business-related stories
Semester-long course on how to understand what’s going on at companies and to report and write compelling business stories.
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Legal reporting: Covering the judicial system and understanding its importance
Semester-long course on the structure of the judicial system and its terminology, function, and importance in public understanding of how the government operates.
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Feature writing: Crafting research-based stories with characters, development and a structural arc
Semester-long syllabus that teaches students how to write stories with characters, show development and follow a structural arc.
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Basic newswriting: Learn how to originate, research and write breaking-news stories
Syllabus for semester-long course on the fundamentals of covering and writing the news, including how identify a story, gather information efficiently and place it in a meaningful context.
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