Feature Writing & Publishing I

This course is part of the Chronicle's fully functioning media outlet, known as the ‘Working Newsroom'. The focus of the newsroom is production on all Chronicle platforms, including print, online, social media and Riot Radio. Students will spend part of their time in a classroom setting and part of the time in the ‘Working Newsroom'. As part of the ‘Working Newsroom' this class focuses on learning and practising new content and techniques, with the goal of creating future-ready job skills. Immersive learning in this class will expose student journalists to the broadest set of technologies and skills on a repetitive basis to move seamlessly into industry. This course aims to provide foundation skills in finding, developing and writing a variety of feature stories and opinion pieces. Lab time will be spent practising techniques for finding story ideas, researching material, and writing general features, profiles, reviews, columns and/or editorials. Impeccable writing skills are important in writing for publication of any kind. It is assumed students in this course bring with them the fundamental writing, research, photography and computer skills acquired in first year that are necessary to complete the work assigned.