Among the media electives students can choose for the Spring semester is a brand new course called “Video Storytelling for the Web.” Taught by Bob Sacha, an award-winning mulitmedia producer, the classes will guide students through the process of researching, reporting, shooting, and editing short, focused video pieces designed specifically for the web.

Hear faculty members talk about the second-semester electives they are teaching at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

In the brand new Video Storytelling for the Web course, students learn to research, report, shoot, and edit short, focused video pieces designed specifically for the web. (Bob Sacha)

National Political Reporting is a class for people who love politics and hate the way politics is covered in the national media. (Peter Beinhart)

One of the great things about Radio News Writing & Reporting is that students have had stories they’ve produced in the course aired on network programs. (Prue Clark & Alex Goldmark)

The goal of News Service – Metro, a course based on the CUNY J-School’s award-winning NYCity News Service, is coming up with story ideas. (Jere Hester & Scotti Williston)

Students who take News Service – Mott Haven serve as reporters for the Mott Haven Herald, a newspaper that covers three communities in the South Bronx in the poorest Congressional district in the U.S. (Bernard Stein)

Interactive II emphasizes individual and collaborative deadline reporting, writing, and packaging for the web, along with the tools of new media. (Adam Glenn & John Smock)

In Hyperlocal: The Local, students report and write for a blog covering two neighborhoods in Brooklyn that CUNY produces in collaboration with The New York Times. (Annaliese Griffin & Indrani Sen)

The Editing class looks at the full range of skills, from editor-in-chief functions to the jobs you get coming right out of journalism school as an editor of an online or print publication. (Steve Strasser)

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