Outcomes & Objectives
We start with the basics – how to find information, constructing the basic news story, designing a newspaper page, taking pictures, and filing a radio report. Students then apply those skills working as reporters for the program’s weekly newspaper, The Voice.
By the end, students have acquired advanced reporting techniques by going out into the real world to cover city council, school board meetings, police and the courts. Other courses develop feature writing and reporting for television. Senior students become editors on The Voice, assigning stories, copy editing and doing the layout for news, features and sports pages. At the end of the Fall and Spring terms, all journalism courses stop for one week when students work full-time on daily editions of The Voice and produce a one-hour television news program.
Diploma students in their fourth term spend a five-week internship working at a newspaper, radio or television station, magazine or corporate communications firm. They also complete an in-depth magazine article or mini-documentary for radio.