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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Develops and sharpens skills in writing for radio and TV news. Begin basics of radio beat reporting and develop interviewing skills for broadcast media. Evaluate newscasts and learn to produce them. Prerequisite: JR 102. Recommended: Take concurrently with JR 200.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the American legal system and its relationship to the press. Gain an understanding of journalists' rights and ethical responsibilities. Study case law that sets legal limits for journalists. Examine ethical decision-making in gray areas. Understand basic structure and processes of federal and state courts. Prerequisite: JR 101.
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4.00 Credits
Enhances and hones skills needed to develop news in a specific geographic or subject "beat"area and to report and write/produce those stories in forms suitable for print and online news audiences. Explores the means of finding, developing, and reporting original "enterprise"stories, and of writing them using a variety of story structures. Should publish stories via Journalism Students' Online News Service, community newspapers, The Berkeley Beacon. Prerequisite: JR 204 or JR 205.
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4.00 Credits
Produce, write, and anchor radio newscasts on deadline, building them, in part, on original reporting. Conduct in-depth analyses of writing, story selection, agenda setting, and the gatekeeping processes. Develop skills in formatting and timing, including sound for radio newscasts. Prerequisite: JR 205.
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1.00 Credits
Participate in workshops and post-production critique and evaluation of specified reporting and editing assignments on the College newspaper, The Berkeley Beacon. Credit is awarded at the end of the semester following an evaluation by the instructor. May be repeated up to 4 credits. Course is offered Pass/Fail. Does not count toward the Print Journalism major. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
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1.00 Credits
Participate in workshops and post-production critique and evaluation of reporter packages, newscasts, sportscasts, and special programs for WEBN, weekly programming of the campus chapter of the Radio-Television News Directors Association. Credit is awarded at the end of the semester following an evaluation by the instructor. May be repeated up to 4 credits. Course is offered Pass/Fail. Does not count toward Broadcast Journalism major. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Develops background knowledge, understanding, and expertise in a specialized area of journalism. Topics vary from semester and year and may include computer-assisted reporting, sports reporting, political reporting, investigative reporting, environmental reporting, and business reporting. At least one section of specialized reporting will be offered each spring. Prerequisite: JR 204 or JR 205.
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4.00 Credits
Develop and practice the craft of editing: refining news copy and choosing how and where it will run in a newspaper or on a website. Learn to edit stories for content, structure, word usage, and story flow. Write headlines and design pages. Explore issues of style, bias, stereotyping, fairness, and taste. Learn appropriate software needed to design pages. Prerequisite: JR 304.
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4.00 Credits
Understand and learn reporting, writing, and producing online news. Explore, evaluate, and analyze "best practices" of online newspublications, online technologies, and their use in digital storytelling and delivery of breaking news. Configure and maintain a blog to critique news sites. Learn to work in a team or individual environment to produce basic multimedia stories. Prerequisite: JR 204 or JR 205. Required junior year for students taking the Online Publishing (JR 590) capstone. (Spring semester)
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4.00 Credits
Experience deadline-driven television newsroom operations by producing newscasts and rotating through newsroom jobs such as tape editor, writer, producer, anchor, reporter, and videographer. Write news scripts, edit video to tell a news story, organize and produce a newscast, coordinate video elements for a newscast, and work together as a broadcast news team. Prerequisite: JR 305.
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