JOUR628X

Prerequisite: JOUR689F or permission of instructor. In this course, advanced journalism students will explore the journalistic components that make up compelling, richly reported, non-fiction feature stories for newspapers and magazines. Students will study advanced techniques in feature reporting and feature writing. Students also will explore how to write compelling non-fiction narratives and feature stories that focus on characters and settings. Students will study the techniques that award-winning feature writers use to pull newspaper readers into a richly reported, compelling non-fiction narratives. We will focus on an investigative reporting and feature writing project that explores the role of white-owned newspapers in advocating racial terror lynchings and massacres of Black people in U.S. history.