This elective course requires students to produce a newspaper or audio/video news broadcast. Through their work, students learn about newspaper and broadcasting writing and production.
Students will:
- Learn and use journalistic style.
- Analyze print and/or television broadcasts for content and technical quality.
- Write news articles including editorials, features, and sports and/or develop broadcast shorts including new shows, public service announcements, and commercials.
- Experience the various jobs of journalistic work such as proofreading, editing, layout of pictures and copy, headlines writing, script preparation, and final production.
Schools
Gunston Middle School
Kenmore Middle School
Dorothy Hamm Middle School
Swanson Middle School
Thomas Jefferson Middle School
Williamsburg Middle School