Community Newsletter Creation and Distribution
Journalism and Content Writing
Hybrid
Start Date
June 1, 2025
Duration
4 weeks
Apply by
May 22, 2025
No. of openings
20
Outline
- In the first session, students will write a report summarizing their experience and key takeaways. As the sessions progress, they will refine this report by incorporating new learnings. For instance, after a session on conducting interviews, they will integrate interview techniques into their report. This iterative process will help them see how their original report evolves and improves with each lesson, enhancing their writing skills.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Basics and Types of Journalism: Print, Broadcast, Online/Digital
- Key Qualities of a journalist
- Writing Assignment: Working on one assignment through the course of the internship to track progress.
- How to write news? (Fact-checking and avoiding misinformation, Gathering Information and verifying sources)
- What is storytelling?
- Conducting Interviews
- Editing and Proofreading (basics)
- Journalism ethics
- Copyright and Plagiarism concerns
