The Modern Media World

JOURN X 440.3

Examine various media contexts, emerging platforms, AI, and challenges to the journalism profession, common career trajectories, and new specializations  

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What you can learn.

  • Explore specialized fields of journalism and media, so you can begin to target in a more definitive way the area where you want to focus
  • Get a practice-based and forward-thinking view of how to succeed in modern journalism
  • Examine the real-world aspects of planning, pitching, and executing stories and content on a variety of platforms

About this course:

Discusses the work of journalists and media creators today in relation to emerging industry realities. Explores real-world aspects of planning, pitching and executing stories and content on a variety of platforms. Students come away with a nuanced and evidentiary view of what it means to succeed in modern journalism. Lessons also cover the specialized fields of journalism and media, so students can begin to target in a more definitive way where they want to focus.   

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