Students in this advanced multimedia reporting course make a difference in the South Bronx. You’ll gain hands-on experience in a real-world newsroom by serving a distinct community that has been traditionally undercovered.
You’ll make use of engagement journalism and community-listening techniques to inform your work and identify key reporting lines for the semester. You’ll deliver news and essential community information for the Mott Haven Herald and Hunts Point Express news sites, their social platforms and the South Bronx Update newsletter. Content will be produced in text, audio, video and interactive formats, in English and Spanish.
Your coursework will culminate in a team project that aims to be groundbreaking and deeply informative. Past classes have created award-winning work recognized alongside professional outlets in New York City.
Supervised by Editor Joe Hirsch, students can practice working directly in a content management system. It’s a great opportunity to bolster your portfolio across media with published work—and get the invigorating experience of working for a vital local news outlet.
Students in this course will:
- Utilize advanced reporting and engagement techniques to produce in-depth work
- Learn a variety of new formats for telling digital stories
- Sharpen skills at reporting and revising stories quickly, for timely distribution
- See the impact of their reporting and measure how it captures audience attention
- Understand the critical role community news sites play in restoring trust in journalism
- Highlight voices and concerns in communities routinely ill-served by media
- Build upon data and research skills to bolster their reporting
- Work as a team to produce a special report about an important local issue
- Requirement: Students in both the MA-Journalism and the MA-Engagement Journalism are required to publish at least one piece of work each semester in Craft 1 and Advanced Reporting courses (MAJ) and Reporting for Engagement J and Advanced Reporting for Engagement J (MA-EJ). Students can fulfill this requirement with work from any first or second-semester class.