Course Instructor
Name: Pam Cytrynbaum
Email: pam.cytrynbaum@oregonstate.edu
Office hours: By appointment
Professor Cytrynbaum is the former director of the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project and associate director of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. She has taught journalism at Northwestern University and the University of Oregon and is an experienced newspaper reporter and freelance writer who has worked at a number of major newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, New Orleans Times Picayune and the Chicago Tribune, where she was a reporter for columnist Mike Royko. Read more
Click here for a list of articles written by Professor Cytrynbaum.
Course Texts & Sources
Required:
Carole Rich. Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method.
The Associated Press Stylebook
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Howard Owens: Journalism in the Digital Age
Telling the Story: The Convergence of Print, Broadcast and Online Media.
Recommended:

Christopher Scanlan. Reporting and Wrting: Basics for the 21st Century.
Multimedia News Resources:
Poynter Institute: Poynter Online
Local, regional, national media
Must Read!
Web Site Serves as Memorial and Warning
On Facebook, Scholars Link up with Data
Journalism.org The Portrait from Iraq: How the Press has Covered Events on the Ground
At 71, Physics Professor is a Web Star
Glossary
Course Librarian
- Librarian: Loretta Rielly
- Office Location: Valley Library, 4th floor
- Office Hours: Tuesdays: 3:00 - 4:30 or by appointment
- Contact: vlibloretta
- Email: Click to reveal email
Last Update: June 19, 2008 14:43
