Middlesex Community College Academic Catalog 2017-18 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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COM 150 - Introduction to Journalism3
This course covers the fundamentals of reporting, writing, and producing news stories for print, broadcast, and online media. Students develop news writing skills for a variety of media platforms, including traditional and new journalism.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Examine and implement reporting strategies for print, broadcast and online news
- Write a hard news story in inverted pyramid style and modified inverted pyramid style.
- Write a compelling feature story.
- Cover a geographic or community beat, developing and producing a story in text, audio, and video.
- Apply rules for copy editing, headline writing, photo selection and page layout (digital and print).
- Articulate the news cycle and develop skill in handling breaking news.
- Consider ethical implications and apply ethical decision making in the field of journalism.
- Critically reflect on professional practice.
Prerequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in or completion of ENG 101. General Education Elective(s): Humanities
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